Lot n° 94
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Isidore PILS (1815-1875)
Bacchante carrying... - Lot 94 - Briscadieu
Isidore PILS (1815-1875)
Bacchante carrying the thyrse on her shoulder and amours serving wine
Four plates signed lower left.
1860-1870.
80 x 58 cm.
This attractive pochade is by one of the masters of official painting under the Second Empire. A pupil of Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, Isidore Pils was awarded the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1838. In 1849, he exhibited a painting at the Salon that would make him famous: Rouget de l'Isle singing the Marseillaise. Under Napoleon III, he followed the Crimean campaign and specialized in military painting. Traveling through Algeria, he also painted a number of orientalist canvases and superb ethnic sketches. A professor at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, he joined the Institut in 1867 and won a prestigious commission: the ceiling of the grand staircase at the Opéra-Garnier, which he was unable to complete. Our bacchante surrounded by lovers is close to the allegorical figures on this ceiling, of which it is probably a contemporary.
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