Study for Saint Remi (middle register); verso: Study for Remi's Raised Arm (studies for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)
19th century
Medium
Red chalk, stumped, black chalk, heightened with white gouache, on gray paper (recto); red chalk (verso)
Dimensions
18 3/8 x 11 1/2 in. (46.7 x 29.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1989
Accession Number
1989.122.8
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...