a. Hands of Saint Remi (lower register); b. Head of Saint Clotilde (upper register); c. Head of Saint Clotilde (lower register); d. Head of an Angel (upper register); e. Hand and Sleeve of Saint Remi
19th century
Medium
a. Red, white, and black chalk, on gray paper; b. graphite, pasted onto larger sheet; c. black chalk, white gouache, on tracing paper, pasted onto larger sheet; d. graphite, on tracing paper, pasted onto a larger sheet; e. black, red, and white chalk, on blue-gray paper, pasted onto a larger sheet
Dimensions
a. 18 7/16 x 11 11/16 in. (46.8 x 29.6 cm); b. 2 7/8 x 2 5/16 in. (7.4 x 5.8 cm); c. 3 11/16 x 3 5/8 in. (9.3 x 9.1 cm); d. 2 1/8 x 2 1/4 in. (5.4 x 5.8 cm); e. 7 1/8 x 4 13/16 in. (18.1 x 12.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1989
Accession Number
1989.122.19a–e
Rights
Public Domain
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...