Oeuvres
Tableaux et dessins anciens
Isidore Pils (Paris 1813 - Douarnenez 1875)
Studies of a Woman Holding a Bowl, 1852
Red chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk, on buff paper
14 1/4 x 10 3/8 in
36.3 x 26.5 cm
36.3 x 26.5 cm
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Provenance
The vente Isidore Pils, Paris, Hôtel Drouot [Durand-Ruel & Mannheim], 20 March-1 April 1876, probably part of lot 844 (‘Figures diverses pour la ‘Distribution du pain aux indigents’: Dix feuilles, sanguine et crayon noir’).Private Collection, UK
Private collection, France
This drawing is a preparatory figure study for the artist’s large canvas of Soldiers Distributing Bread and Soup to the Poor, painted in 1852 and exhibited at the Salon that...
This drawing is a preparatory figure study for the artist’s large canvas of Soldiers Distributing Bread and Soup to the Poor, painted in 1852 and exhibited at the Salon that year. Commissioned by the State for the sum of 4,000 francs, the painting is today in the collection of the Château de Fontainebleau.
Catalogues
Gabriel P. Weisberg, Early Realist Drawings of Isidore Pils, Master Drawings, Winter 1990, p.394, fig.7.
Ibid., p.392.
Weisberg, op.cit., 1990, pp.392-395.
Weisberg, op.cit., 1990, p.398, fig.11 ; Michaux and Weisberg, op.cit., p.24, fig.7, détail illustré p.2 (dimensions données : 242 x 140 mm ; Weisberg suggère que la feuille a pu appartenir à un petit carnet).
L. Becq de Fouquières, Isidore Alexandre Auguste Pils: sa vie et ses oeuvres, Paris, 1876, p.26 ; traduit dans Gabriel P. Weisberg, The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830-1900, cat. exp., Cleveland et ailleurs, 1980-1982, p.111.