Lionel Royer

The Communion of the Zouaves, 1910.

La Communion des zouaves (museum title)

Lionel Royer (French), oil on canvas

Church of Saint-Lucain, Loigny-la-Bataille, France

Saint Julian Making the Spring Gush Forth, late 19th century.

Saint Julien faisant jaillir la fontaine (museum title)

Lionel Royer (French), oil on canvas

Church of the Centre de l'Étoile, Le Mans, France

Taste, Sketch for the Reception Hall of the Town Hall of the 10th Arrondissement of Paris, 1906.

Esquisse pour la mairie du 10ème arrondissement de Paris… (museum title)

Lionel Royer (French), oil on canvas

Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, France

Vercingetorix Throws Down His Arms at the Feet of Julius Caesar, 1899.

Vercingétorix jette ses armes aux pieds de César (museum title)

Lionel Royer (French), oil on canvas

Musée Crozatier (Le Puy-en-Velay), France

Esmeralda, c. 1889–1902.

Esméralda (museum title)

Lionel Royer (French), oil on wood

Maison de Victor Hugo, France

The Battle of Auvours, 10 January 1871, 1874.

Bataille d'Auvours, le 10 janvier 1871 (museum title)

Lionel Royer (French), oil on canvas

Musée de Tessé (Le Mans), France

Works by Lionel Royer (1852-1926), in the public domain, each linked to the record of the museum that holds it, or to its record in the French Ministry of Culture's POP database for the paintings still in churches. Born at Château-du-Loir, in the Sarthe, he enlisted at seventeen in the Volontaires de l'Ouest and fought at Loigny in 1870, then studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Cabanel and Bouguereau; he won the second Grand Prix de Rome in 1882. A sought-after portraitist and history painter, he is best known for Vercingetorix Throws Down His Arms at the Feet of Julius Caesar, reproduced for a century in French school textbooks, and for the Life of Joan of Arc in the basilica at Domrémy. Only works of which a freely reusable photograph of at least 900 pixels exists are included: the canvases of the Musée de Tessé, those of Domrémy and many others, photographed only at small size or not at all, are not here yet. The titles are those of the museums, with their translation.