Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils Art

Isidore-Alexandre-Auguste PILS (Paris, 1815 – Douarnenez, 1875) Portrait of Joseph de Rainneville in papal zouave uniform Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower left 67 x 49.5cm 1861...

Isidore Pils (1813-1875) Portrait of the Capitaine Fiévé, Bataille de l'Artois Charcoal and heightenings of white gouache on paper Annotated "Le Capitaine Fiévé, Bataille de l'Artois" lower right Bears the dry stamp of Pils estate lower right 30 x 23.3 cm In a cardboard mount 53 x 40 cm The Bataille (battle) de l'Artois took place in 1871 during franco-prussian war. We know Isidore Pils took part to this war as an observer and artist. 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...

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...