a. Hand of Saint Remi; b. Hand of Saint Remi; c. Drapery Study for Acolyte Holding Book (middle register); (studies for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)
19th century
Medium
a. Red chalk and white gouache, on gray paper; b. Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue-gray paper, pasted onto a larger sheet; c. Black chalk, stumped, heightened with white chalk, on gray paper, pasted onto a larger sheet
Dimensions
a. 18 3/4 x 11 15/16 in. (47.7 x 30.3 cm); b. 6 1/16 x 4 1/2 in. (15.3 x 11.5 cm); c. 8 1/4 x 4 7/8 in. (21.0 x 12.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1989
Accession Number
1989.122.11a, b, c
Tags
About the Artist
Isidore Pils · 1813–1875
Isidore-Alexandre-Augustin Pils (1813/15–1875), born in Paris to the soldier François Pils, emerged as a leading French academic painter known for religious and military subjects. At age twelve, he studied under Guillaume Guillon-Lethière for four years before entering the École des Beaux-Arts in 1831 as a student of François-Édouard Picot. His talent secured the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1838 w...