a. Hands of Saint Remi (lower register); b. Head of Saint Clotilde (upper register); c. Head of Saint Clotilde (lower register); d. Head of an Angel (upper register); e. Hand and Sleeve of Saint Remi
19th century
Medium
a. Red, white, and black chalk, on gray paper; b. graphite, pasted onto larger sheet; c. black chalk, white gouache, on tracing paper, pasted onto larger sheet; d. graphite, on tracing paper, pasted onto a larger sheet; e. black, red, and white chalk, on blue-gray paper, pasted onto a larger sheet
Dimensions
a. 18 7/16 x 11 11/16 in. (46.8 x 29.6 cm); b. 2 7/8 x 2 5/16 in. (7.4 x 5.8 cm); c. 3 11/16 x 3 5/8 in. (9.3 x 9.1 cm); d. 2 1/8 x 2 1/4 in. (5.4 x 5.8 cm); e. 7 1/8 x 4 13/16 in. (18.1 x 12.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1989
Accession Number
1989.122.19a–e
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...