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Isidore Pils
Isidore Pils

Isidore Pils

French, 1815-1875
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Isidore-Alexandre-Augustin Pils was a French academic painter of religious and military subjects.

Pils was born in Paris as the son of a soldier François Pils. At the age of twelve, he studied with Guillaume Guillon-Lethière for four years.

In 1831 he became a student at the École des Beaux-Arts and studied under François-Édouard Picot. He competed for the Prix de Rome, which he won in 1838 for a history painting, St. Peter Healing a Lame Man at the Door of the Temple. Although in poor health, Pils then spent the customary three years at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici, which then had Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres as its director. While in Italy he visited Naples, Venice, and Florence.

Pils's earlier paintings have religious themes. In 1849 he completed his most famous work, Rouget de L'Isle Singing La Marseillaise, which now resides at the Musée historique de Strasbourg. After experiences travelling with French troops through the Crimea, his themes took on military and nationalistic subjects. He later produced many military scenes during the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.

Pils was appointed professor of painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1863 but left the same year for two years in Algeria. In 1868 he was elected to seat #14 of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Among his students were Adrien Moreau, Paul Adolphe Rajon, Julien Dupré, Luc-Olivier Merson, Ludovic Piette, Édouard Joseph Dantan and László Mednyánszky Henry-Lionel Brioux.

Among his other work, Pils painted part of the ceiling of the grand staircase of the Palais Garnier, in four panels titled The Gods of Olympus, Apollo in His Chariot, Triumph of Harmony, and Apotheosis of the Opera, completed the year of his death. The following year he was the subject of a biography by Louis Becq de Fouquières.

Pils died in Douarnenez and is buried in section 54 of Père Lachaise Cemetery.

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Ruins of the Tuileries Palace

Ruins of the Tuileries Palace (1871)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Landscape
Les Buttes-Chaumont.

Les Buttes-Chaumont. (1871)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Landscape
Saint Remi

Saint Remi (19th century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
Sleeve of a Cleric; (studies for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

Sleeve of a Cleric; (studies for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858) (19th Century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
Soldier

Soldier (19th century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
Studies of Soldiers and Cart Horses

Studies of Soldiers and Cart Horses (1830–75)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
Seated Bearded Man, Nude to the Waist (Jupiter Seated)

Seated Bearded Man, Nude to the Waist (Jupiter Seated) (19th century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
Sainte Clotilde

Sainte Clotilde (19th century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
Monk

Monk (19th Century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
Study for Clovis

Study for Clovis (19th Century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
Study for Clovis

Study for Clovis (19th Century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
Study for Clovis

Study for Clovis (19th century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
Study for Saint Remi

Study for Saint Remi (19th Century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
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Two Bishops

Two Bishops (19th century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
Entrée de la Villa Medicis, Académie Française de peinture à Rome

Entrée de la Villa Medicis, Académie Française de peinture à Rome

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
Militaires sous un arbre (Soldiers under a Tree)

Militaires sous un arbre (Soldiers under a Tree)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
Study for ‘Visit of the Emperor Napoleon III and the Empress to Algeria’

Study for ‘Visit of the Emperor Napoleon III and the Empress to Algeria’ (1861)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
Cleric with Raised Arms

Cleric with Raised Arms (19th Century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
Cleric with Joined Hands

Cleric with Joined Hands (19th Century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
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Cleric

Cleric (19th Century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
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Bishop

Bishop (19th century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
Acolyte with Open Book

Acolyte with Open Book (19th Century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
a. Hand of Saint Remi; b. Hand of Saint Remi; c. Drapery Study for Acolyte Holding Book

a. Hand of Saint Remi; b. Hand of Saint Remi; c. Drapery Study for Acolyte Holding Book (19th Century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
Study for Clovis

Study for Clovis (19th Century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
Cleric with Joined Hands

Cleric with Joined Hands (19th Century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
Cleric

Cleric (19th Century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
Cleric with Raised Arms

Cleric with Raised Arms (19th Century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
Monk

Monk (19th Century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
Drapery Study for a Bishop

Drapery Study for a Bishop (19th century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
Cleric

Cleric (19th Century)

Isidore Pils (French, 1815-1875)
Drawings
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