Word: monvel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every day for six months, visitors to the Corcoran Gallery in Washington had asked to see "the Joan of Arc pictures", and had been disappointed. The room in which Maurice Boutet de Monvel's six great paintings hung was closed for repairs. By the time it reopened this week, gallery officials were convinced that the paintings, donated by the late Senator William A. Clark of Montana, were among the most popular in its collection...
...made them was a prosperous and beloved illustrator of French children's books (Filles et Garçons; Nos Enfants'), but by no means a famous artist in his own time. Only gradually has it become clear that Boutet de Monvel has cinched his own special place among the immortals of art, by modestly slipping through the gate that many more gifted painters try, and fail, to force...
Boutet de Monvel, the proud and gentle product of an age that now seems almost as remote as Charlemagne's, died in 1913, just before history presented some of his readers with the day he had in mind. "He took a long time dressing," one of his sons remembers, "and was always elegant, with a bow tie, spats, silk hat, a flower in his lapel, and always a cane...