Studies of Soldiers and Cart Horses
Isidore Pils
1830–75
Medium
Graphite, brown wash
Dimensions
10 x 12 1/8 in. (25.5 x 31.0 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Jill Newhouse, in memory of Ross M. Newhouse, 1989
Accession Number
1989.381
Tags
SoldiersHorsesHuman Figures
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...