Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils Art
French, 1813-1875
Isidore-Alexandre-Augustin Pils (1815–1875) was a French academic painter of religious and military subjects. Pils was born in Paris as the son of a soldier François Pils. At the age of twelve, he studied with Guillaume Guillon-Lethière for four years.
In 1831 he became a student at the École des Beaux-Arts and studied under François-Édouard Picot. He competed for the Prix de Rome, which he won in 1838 for a history painting, Saint Peter Healing a Lame Man at the Door of the Temple.
Although in poor health, Pils then spent the customary three years at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici, which then had Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres as its director. While in Italy he visited Naples, Venice, and Florence.
Pils's earlier paintings have religious themes. In 1849 he completed his most famous work, Rouget de L'Isle Singing La Marseillaise, which now resides at the Musée historique de Strasbourg. After experiences travelling with French troops through the Crimea, his themes took on military and nationalistic subjects. He later produced many military scenes during the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
Pils was appointed professor of painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1863 but left the same year for two years in Algeria. In 1868 he was elected to seat #14 of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Among his students were Adrien Moreau, Paul Adolphe Rajon, Julien Dupré, Luc-Olivier Merson, Ludovic Piette, Édouard Joseph Dantan and László Mednyánszky. Among his other work, Pils painted part of the ceiling of the grand staircase of the Palais Garnier, in four panels titled The Gods of Olympus, Apollo in His Chariot, Triumph of Harmony, and Apotheosis of the Opera, completed the year of his death. The following year he was the subject of a biography by Louis Becq de Fouquières.
Pils died in Douarnenez and is buried in section 54 of Père Lachaise Cemetery. His works are held by different museums in France such as : Musée Condé - Chantilly
Musée National du Château - Compiègne
Musée des Beaux Arts - Bordeaux
Musée Historique - Strasbourg
Palais des Beaux-Arts - Lille
Musée des Augustins - Toulouse etc...(Biography provided by Fremiot)
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Artist: Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils
A Man reading in his Study, oil painting, small, 14 K gold frame, French 19th C
By Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils
Located in New York, NY
Isidore Pils
Paris 1813 – 1875 Douarnenez
Portrait of a Man in his Study
Oil on canvas
10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches
Framed: 16 x 14 inches
Provenance:
Private Collection, Florida
Isi...
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Mid-19th Century French School Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils Art
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Isidore Pils (1813-1875) An Orientalist scene, signed watercolor
By Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils
Located in Paris, FR
Isidore Pils (1813-1875)
An Orientalist scene
Signed lower left
Pencil and heightenings of watercolor on paper
15 x 24 cm
paper yellowed by time, stains and a small repaired tear on the upper right edge.
In a modern mount 40.5 x 53 cm
Isidore-Alexandre-Augustin Pils (1815–1875) was a French academic painter of religious and military subjects.
Pils was born in Paris as the son of a soldier François Pils. At the age of twelve, he studied with Guillaume Guillon-Lethière for four years.
In 1831 he became a student at the École des Beaux-Arts and studied under François-Édouard Picot.
He competed for the Prix de Rome, which he won in 1838 for a history painting, St. Peter Healing a Lame Man at the Door of the Temple.
Although in poor health, Pils then spent the customary three years at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici, which then had Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres as its director. While in Italy he visited Naples, Venice, and Florence.
Pils's earlier paintings have religious themes. In 1849 he completed his most famous work, Rouget de L'Isle Singing La Marseillaise, which now resides at the Musée historique de Strasbourg. After experiences travelling with French troops through the Crimea, his themes took on military and nationalistic subjects. He later produced many military scenes during the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
Pils was appointed professor of painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1863 but left the same year for two years in Algeria. In 1868 he was elected to seat #14 of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Among his students were Adrien Moreau...
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Attributed To Isidore Pils (1813-1875) Portrait Of Young Man, Watercolor
By Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils
Located in Paris, FR
Attributed to Isidore Pils (1813-1875)
Portrait of young man
Watercolor on paper, mounted on cardboard
26.5 x 21 cm
In a modern frame : 42 x 36 cm
In quite good condition, a little b...
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1860s Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils Art
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Watercolor
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