Seated Bearded Man, Nude to the Waist (Jupiter Seated)
Isidore Pils
19th century
Medium
Black and white chalk on gray paper
Dimensions
16 x 11 7/8 in. (40.6 x 30.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Robert Isaacson, in memory of Louise Fitzhugh, 1974
Accession Number
1974.365
Tags
MenJupiter
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...