Cleric (lower register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858); black chalk landscape sketch on verso of support
19th century
Medium
Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tracing paper. Paste marks on all margins. Affixed to a sheet of light gray paper.
Dimensions
15 7/8 x 9 7/16 in. (40.4 x 24.0 cm); support: 18 3/4 x 12 1/4 in. (47.7 x 31.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1989
Accession Number
1989.122.35
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...