3615940 Joan of Arc, 1879 (oil on canvas) by Bastien-Lepage, Jules (1848-84); 254x279.4 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: The medieval teenage martyr from Lorraine gained new status as a patriotic symbol when France ceded the territory to Germany in the Franco-Prussian War (1870??1). Bastien-Lepage, a native of Lorraine, shows Saints Michael, Margaret, and Catherine appearing to the peasant girl in her parents??garden, rousing her to fight the English invaders in the Hundred Years War. ); French, out of copyright.