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Item Ships From: France
Thinking Man - Original Charcoal Drawing by Georges Gôbo - Early 20th Century
By Georges Gobo
Located in Roma, IT
Character holding his head with reflection in mirror is an original black chalk drawing on drawing sheet, torn at the top, realized at the beginning of the 19th Century by the artist...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Nude - Original Watercolor on Paper by Jean Delpech - 1960s
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
Nude 1935's is an original drawing in tempera and watercolor a on paper, realized by Jean Delpech (1988-1916).
On the back of the drawing, a row of trees and a building of a monume...
Category
1960s France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Rose - Drawing by Aurelio Mistruzzi - 1905
Located in Roma, IT
Rose is an Artwork realized by the Italian Artist Aurelio Mistruzzi in 1905.
Drawing on paper.
Good conditions.
Aurelio Mistruzzi (1880-1960) studied at the Udine Art School, having classes with the Sculptor De Paoli...
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Early 1900s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Theatrical Costume - Drawing by Simone Vaulpré - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Theatrical Costume is a drawing made by Simone Vaulpré during the early 20th century.
Hand signed.
Good condition apart from some tears in the lower part.
The original artwork is ...
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Early 20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
A Port - Original China Ink by Herta Hausmann - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
A Port is a black China ink drawing realized by Herta Hausmann on 1950 ca.
Good conditions, except for same worn paper on the left margins.
Atelier stamp on the back of the artwork.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Landscape - Pencil Drawing - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century.
The State of preservation is very good with the traces of time and some small...
Category
Mid-20th Century France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
French School of 18th Century - Study Of A Foot Skeleton
Located in PARIS, FR
French School, 18th century
Study of foot skeleton
Beautiful study in the period's frame.
Dimensions with frame 44 x 53 cm
Category
18th Century France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Costume - Drawing By Arnold Sheffer - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Costume is an artwork realized in the Mid-19th Century by Arnold Sheffer (1809-1873).
Ink and watercolor.
Dedicated and hand signed.
Good conditions.
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Les Croates (French Army in 1812-13)- Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Les Croates is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depicted through strong lines ...
Category
1940s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Wooden Huts - Original Watercolor by Armin Guther - 1986
By Armin Guther
Located in Roma, IT
Wooden Huts is an original watercolor on paper, realized in 1986 by Armin Guther.
The artwork is hand-signed and dated in charcoal pencil on the lower-right.
In excellent condition...
Category
1980s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Sketch - Drawing By Yvette Alde - Mid-20th Century
By Yvette Alde
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch is a modern artwork realized by Yvette Alde in the Mid-20th Century.
Ink and watercolor,.
Good conditions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Landscape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a Watercolour artwork realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980) in 1960.
Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (35x51 cm).
Hand-signed...
Category
1960s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait - Original China Ink Drawing on Paper - Early 20th Century
By Marguerite Callet-Carcano
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait Of Woman is a black and white drawing realized in 1969 by Marguerite Callet-Carcano.
The artwork is dated 1969 (as reported on the lower part of passe-partout).
Provenance: Vente de l'atelier Bruxelles 1969
The drawing is glued on passe-partout.
Good conditions except for some foxings on passepartout.
Marguerite Callet-Carcano (Milan, 1878)
Marguerite Callet-Carcano was an Italian-Belgian graphic artist, illustrated books like Drame and Savonarole. Drame by Iwan Gilkin (1926), Les Chimères by Georges Rency (1928), René by François-René Chateaubriand and a reprint by Adolphe by Benjamin Constant. In addition to the xilograph technique, she also used the linoleum one. She engraved the portrait of Charles De Coster...
Category
Early 20th Century France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Morning moments - Pencil drawing - circa 1914
By Georges Conrad
Located in Paris, IDF
Georges CONRAD (1874-1936)
Morning moments
Original India ink drawing
Signed with the stamp of atelier
On paper 26.5 x 20 cm (c. 10,4 x 7.8 in)
Very good condition, paper lightly y...
Category
1910s Academic France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777) A Mythological scene, drawing
By Louis-Félix Delarue
Located in Paris, FR
Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777)
A Mythological scene
Pen and black ink on paper
Bears an old inscription with the name of the artist on the lower left bo...
Category
1770s Old Masters France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
People Conversation - China Ink Drawing by Chas Laborde - Early 1900
By Chas Laborde
Located in Roma, IT
People Conversation is an original artwork realized in the first half of the XX century by Chas Laborde.
Original black and white drawing.
Hand-signed on the lower-right corner.
On the lower right is "noted Les ennemis - vous êtes toujours fachés?- Sa méchanceté est terrible:il a raconté partout que j'aurai fait la cour à sa femme"
Chas Laborde, (Buenos Aires, 1886 - Paris, 1941)
Born Charles...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Reading - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1955
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Reading is a china ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1955.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was an Ital...
Category
1950s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Nude Woman - Original Drawing in Mixed Media on Paper - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Woman is an original drawing in mixed media on paper, realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century, with a description at the top, left on the sheet in pencil.
The state o...
Category
20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
The Evocation - Ink Drawing - Mid-20th Century
By Albert Decaris
Located in Roma, IT
The Evocation is a china ink drawing realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Good condition.
The artwork is strong through soft strokes with perfect hatchings in a well-balanced composit...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Portrait de Jean Desbordes - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1929
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on vélin pur fil des Papeteries du Marais, realized by Cocteau in 1929.
Belongs to the suite "25 Dessins d'Un Dormeur", published by H. L. Mermod, Lausanne.
Edition of 2...
Category
1920s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Battle, Knights on Horses - China Ink and Watercolor by T. Fort - 1840s
By Theodore Fort
Located in Roma, IT
Typical battle scene by T. Fort, in very good conditions and signed by the artist.
A very interesting artwork for a connoisseur of the militaria genre!
Theodore Géricaul Fort (1810 - 1896), Simeone Fort's son, belonged to the French school of the XIX century; Théodore Fort...
Category
1840s Old Masters France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Abstract Expressionist CoBrA Style Figure. Chalk on Card.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Abstract expressionist CoBrA style chalk on paper of a human figure attributed to French artist, A Nuchy. The work is unsigned but was acquired along with ...
Category
1970s Outsider Art France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Cardboard
Figures - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1945
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an artwork realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1945.
Watercolor on paper.
Signed by the artist, dated "1945".
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, Jun...
Category
1940s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Anatomical Study - Drawing by Michael Burgess - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Original Drawing - Anatomical Study: Lion Skull - Frontal View, Upper, and Lower Casing - Graphite Drawing on Strathmore - 90 Gsm Paper. Using a series of...
Category
1970s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
French Romantic school, Portrait of a young man, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic school, circa 1840
Portrait of a young man,
charcoal on paper
22.5 x 17 cm
In good condition, however, there is a restoration of the paper in the upper right-hand qu...
Category
1840s Romantic France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
French school 19th century, An italian bandit, 1864, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
French school 19th century,
An italian bandit, 1864,
watercolor on paper
On the reverse of the sheet (now under the back of the frame) an annotation, "Rome 1864"
25,5 x 21.5 cm (v...
Category
1860s Romantic France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Bird- Drawing in Tempera - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bird is an original modern artwork realized by Artist of the mid-20th Century.
Mixed colored tempera on board.
Includes frame: 33 x 40 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Felt Pen
Sketch for a Portrait - Drawing by Flor David - Mid 20th Century
By Flor David
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch for a Portrait is a drawing on paper realized in the Mid-20th Century by Flor David.
Pencil on Creamy-colored paper.
Good conditions.
Flor David (1891-1958) ): pseudonym of...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Playing Boy, Dancing Girl - Original Drawing by R. Fontene - 1967
Located in Roma, IT
Playing Boy and Dancing Girl is an Original pen, ink and pastel drawing realized by Robert Fonténé in 1967.
Dated on the lower and with hand-note on th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
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Autograph Letter with Sketch - China Ink by Hans Erni - 1938
By Hans Erni
Located in Roma, IT
Autograph Letter Signed with Original Sketch by Hans Erni to Nesto Jacometti. October 26th, 1938. Signed "ton Erni".
One page, double-sided. On ivory colored paper with black paper ...
Category
1930s France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Sleeping Woman - Original Charcoal Drawing by Serge Fontinsky - 1940s
By Serge Fontinsky
Located in Roma, IT
Sleeping Woman is a black and white charcoal drawing realized by Serge Fontinsky (1887-1971) in the half of the 20th Century.
Good conditions but top left of sheet missing.
Hand-s...
Category
1940s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Leader of the Arab army - Original Watercolor Lithograph - 1848 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Leader of the Arab army (Capo dell'armata Araba) is an original water-colored lithograph on paper realized in 1848 ca. by Anonymous Artist of the 19th Century.
In very good conditio...
Category
19th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
The Faces - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Faces is an Original Drawing in ink and watercolor on cream-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (1898-1989) was an Ita...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Die Moralische Eifersucht - Drawing by Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Die moralische Eifersucht is a contemporary artwork realized by Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern in 1964.
Pencil and colored chalks on Schoellershammer cardboard.
Signed "F. S. SONN...
Category
1960s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil
Landscape Study - Drawing by André Meaux Saint-Marc - Th Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape Study is a drawing, realized in early 20th Century, by the French Artist André Meaux Saint-Marc (1885-1941).
Charcoal on paper. Hand Signed on back.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Composition - Drawing by Alfredo Mezio - 1934
By Alfredo Mezio
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a drawing in pen on paper, realized by Alfredo Mezio in 1934 for the magazine "Il Selvaggio", Year XI, p. 46.
The artwork is depicted skillfully through confident an...
Category
1930s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Figure - Drawing - 1899
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an Original Charcoal Drawing realized in 1899 .
Good condition.
Hand-signed, dated on the lower right corner, not readable.
Category
1890s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
A Summer Road - Original Watercolor by Armin Guther - 1997
By Armin Guther
Located in Roma, IT
A Summer Road is an original colored watercolor realized in 1997 by Armin Guther.
Good conditions. Includes passepartout (50 x 60 cm).
The artwork is hand-signed and dated on the l...
Category
1980s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Early-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a drawing realized by Joseph Alexandre Colinin the Mid-20th Century.
Pencil ivory-colored paper.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Portrait de Jean Desbordes - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1929
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on vélin pur fil des Papeteries du Marais, realized by Cocteau in 1929.
Belongs to the suite "25 Dessins d'Un Dormeur", published by H. L. Mermod, Lausanne.
Edition of 2...
Category
1920s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Satiric Figures - Original drawing by Eugene le Poittevin - 19th century
By Eugene Le Poittevin
Located in Roma, IT
Satiric Figures is an original china ink drawing on paper, realized by Eugene le Poittevin (Paris 1806-1870) French artist in the 19th century.
Good general conditions, and aged mar...
Category
19th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Attributed to Eugene Deully (1866-1933) A woman, study, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Attributed to Eugene Deully (1866-1933)
A woman , study,
Pencil and heightenings of white gouache on blue grey paper in two parts, the left part added
...
Category
1890s French School France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Portrait - Drawing by Jacqueline Barbet - 1938
By Jacqueline Barbet
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an artwork realized by the french Artist Jacqueline Barbet (1902-1975), in 1938.
Pencil, pastel and charcoal rawing on paper. Hand-signed and dated in pencil in Roman nu...
Category
1930s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Pastel, Charcoal
Nude of Woman - Original Artwork by Louis Touchagues - Mid-20th Century
By Louis Touchagues
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman lying with her arms in frontt is an original artwork realized by Louis Touchagues (1893 - 1974).
Original ink drawing sketch signed in pencil on the side at the top ri...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Mermet. Mid-Century Design for a Sculpture. Acrylic and Crayon on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A mid-century design for a sculpture, signed or titled Mermet bottom left corner. Presented in period metal frame.
A very strong image which is almost certainly a design for a sculpture due to the three dimensional nature of the piece accentuated by the lines of the image extending beyond the subject itself showing the different planes to be worked.
This extremely energetic and forceful application of the crayon and the extension of the lines is highly reminiscent of the work of the expressionist Bernard Buffet who lived and worked in Tourtour in the South of France. The angular features of the figure and the dark intense lines are particularly in line with the style of his work. Expressionism was a form of art less interested in the correct anatomical representation of the subject but more in portraying the feelings and emotions that the subject evoked.
The model appears to be for a sculpture quite possibly inspired by African art as the image is reminiscent of African fetish...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Acrylic
Crocodile - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Crocodile is a drawing realized by Joseph Colin in the Mid-20th Century.
Pencil on ivory-colored paper
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through deft exp...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Male Foul - Pencil Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Male Foul is a Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1960s.
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
Good condition on a little cardboard.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome,...
Category
1960s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Naked Woman - Original Pencil by André Meaux Saint-Marc - Early 20th Century
By André Meaux Saint-Marc
Located in Roma, IT
Naked woman is a pencil drawing by the artist André Meaux Saint-Marc (1885-1941).
Good conditions.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
At the Beach - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
At the Beach is a Pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 19...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Odalisque at the menagerie - Original Watercolor Lithograph - 1848 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Odalisque at the menagerie (Odalisco al serraglio) is an original water-colored lithograph on paper realized in 1848 ca. by Anonymous Artist of 19th Century.
In very good conditions...
Category
19th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Henri Poey, Mask circa 1930, charcoal on paper, mounted on cardboard
Located in PARIS, FR
Henri POEY (1910-1998)
Mask, circa 1930
Charcoal on paper
Mounted on cardboard
Signed lower left
22.5 x 21.5 cm
black lacquered oak frame : 30 x 30 cm
Little biographical informat...
Category
Mid-20th Century France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
The Last Passion of Torquemada - Ink Drawing on Paper 1935
By Louis Touchagues
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 18.4 X 15.5 cm.
The Last Passion of Torquemada is an original artwork realized by Louis Touchagues in 1935.
Original black and white watercolored lithograph.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower-left corner. Title on the back.
Annotated in pencil on the lower right corner: "Paris magazine April 35".
Good conditions except for some foxings on paper.
This interesting artwork shows a woman tied in a torture room. The title refers to the famous historical figure of Tomas de Torquemada was the first inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition...
Category
1930s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Figures - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is a Charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 19...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Untitled Zahra Zeinali Contemporary art portrait Iranian artist drawing black
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Charcoal on paper
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Naked Woman - Original Pencil by André Meaux Saint-Marc - Early 20th Century
By André Meaux Saint-Marc
Located in Roma, IT
Naked woman is a pencil drawing by the artist André Meaux Saint-Marc (1885-1941).
Good conditions.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Gazing on Nude - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - Early 20th Century
By Gabriele Galantara
Located in Roma, IT
Gazing on Nude is a modern artwork by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937) in the early 20th century.
The artwork has been realized in ink and white lead on paper.
Good conditions and ag...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Paper
Cottage - Original Drawing in Pencil on Paper - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cottage is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century. With a drawing of a horse's head on the rear.
The State of preservation is good ...
Category
20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Villa - Original Pencil on paper - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Villa is an original drawing in pencil on paper, realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century, with the stamp of "Vente Scott" in red on the lower left.
The State of preservati...
Category
20th Century Naturalistic France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Forest - Ink and Watercolor by S. Goldberg - 1950s
By Simon Goldberg
Located in Roma, IT
Forest is an original drawing in mixed media on paper realized by Simon Goldberg (1913-1985). Hand-signed on the lower left.
The state of preservation is very good.
Sheet dimension...
Category
1950s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
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...
Category
1870s Academic France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
