Young Man Leaning Forward with Outstretched Arms (Study for Soldiers Distributing Bread to the Poor)
Medium
oil, brown oil wash or ink wash, and black crayon
Dimensions
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Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of Muriel Butkin
Accession Number
2008.361
Tags
male
About this artwork
This unfinished sketch is a study for Isidore Pils's painting Soldiers Distributing Bread to the Poor, which was inspired by an actual scene he witnessed in the center of Paris. Here the artist focused his attention on the youth's upper body and left the legs lightly sketched in, indicating that he must have executed the sketch after he had already worked out the larger composition (where the legs are obscured by a low wall).