a. Study for Clovis (middle register); b. Study for Clovis (middle register); c. St. Dominic and another Friar, after Fra Angelico; (studies for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)
19th century
Medium
a, b. Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tracing paper; c. graphite
Dimensions
a. 7 1/16 x 5 1/2 in. (17.8 x 13.9 cm); b. 6 9/16 x 4 3/8 in. (16.7 x 11.0 cm); c. 8 7/16 x 6 1/4 in. (21.3 x 15.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1989
Accession Number
1989.122.6a, 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...