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

Biography

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[1] and studied under François-Édouard Picot.[2] 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.[3] 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.[1] 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.[4]

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[2] and is buried in section 54 of Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Gallery

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  Study of a Reclining Nude, 1836
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  St. Peter Healing a Lame Man at the Door of the Temple, 1838
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  Rouget de L'Isle Singing La Marseillaise, 1849
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  Horse caparisoned, c. 1860, Art Gallery of New South Wales

Notes

• Some content on this page is translated from its French equivalent. Accessed 3/11/2010

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На других языках

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[de] Isidore Pils

Isidore Pils (* 19. Juli 1813 in Paris; † 3. September 1875 in Douarnenez, Département Finistère) war ein französischer Maler und Aquarellist.

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- [en] Isidore Pils

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[es] Isidore Pils

Isidore Alexandre Auguste Pils, más conocido como Isidore Pils (París, 19 de julio de 1813 o bien 7 de noviembre de 1815 - Douarnerez, 3 de septiembre de 1875), pintor francés.

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[fr] Isidore Pils

Isidore Alexandre Auguste Pils né à Paris le 7 novembre 1815[1] et mort à Douarnenez le 3 septembre 1875[2] est un peintre français.

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[it] Isidore Pils

Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils (Parigi, 19 luglio 1813 – Douarnenez, 3 dicembre 1875) è stato un pittore francese.

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[ru] Пильс, Изидор

Изидор Александр Огюстен Пильс (в ряде источников Пиль, фр. Isidore-Alexandre-Augustin Pils; 19 июля 1813, Париж — 3 декабря 1875, там же) — французский художник, академик, педагог.

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