Gilles ROUSSELET (1610-1686) and Abraham BOSSE (1602- 1676) after Claude VIGNON (1593-1670). The Maid of Orleans. Etching and burin on watermarked laid paper (warping and pitting). Height : 35 cm. 35 cm - Width : 22 cm (at sight) This plate is the eighteenth illustration (out of twenty in total) made for the book "La Galerie des Femmes Fortes" by Pierre Le Moyne published by Antoine de Sommaville in 1647. Each illustration features a heroine, in a landscape where an episode of her life takes place. At the bottom of each plate, her name is followed by a short legend and a historical source. The figure of Joan of Arc is inscribed in the foreground in a monumental way; it is engraved with a burin by Gilles Rousselet. The second plan, much more animated, is engraved very lightly in etching by Abraham Bosse.