 Etty sold the triptych for the huge sum of 2500 guineas ( about £ 220 @,@ 000 in 2016 terms ) to dealer Richard Colls and the engraver C. W. Wass . Colls and Wass had ambitious plans to recoup their money by selling engravings of the pictures and by taking the paintings on a tour of Britain and Europe . The paintings proved less popular than expected . Very few engravings were sold and the tours did not take place ; Wass declared bankruptcy in 1852 . The paintings were separated , and sold on to a series of buyers , with the third panel fetching just 71 ⁄ 2 guineas in 1893 as Etty 's popularity continued to wane . By the 1950s all three panels of Joan of Arc were believed lost or destroyed , although some preliminary studies survive . 
