DETAILS
- Artist
- Isidore Pils
- Date
- 1842
- Medium
- Graphite
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 5 7/8 x 5 1/4 in. (15.0 x 13.3 cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Mark Brady, in honor of Jacob Bean, 1992
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THE ARTIST
Isidore Pils
Isidore Pils, a French academic painter, captured everything from religious devotion to the intensity of battle and the grandeur of opera house ceilings.
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