Isidore Pils (1815 - 1875) Church Of Saint Jean De Luz

Isidore PILS (1815 - 1875), Church of Saint Jean de Luz (1871). Watercolor, gouache and pencil on tinted paper. Work signed, located and dated lower left, numbered 3038 Frame size: 50 x 63 cm Isidore Pils was born in Paris on 07/11/1815 and died in Douarnenez on 03/09/1875. Around 1826 he entered the studio of Guillaume Guillon Lethière with whom he studied his art for four years, he was also a student of François Edouard Picot. He won the Prix de Rome in 1838 in the history painting category with Saint Peter healing a lame man at the door of the temple, then he spent his time at the Académie de France, in Rome at the Villa Medici then directed by Ingres. He was appointed professor of painting at the School of Fine Arts in Paris from 1863 to 1875. He was chosen to paint part of the ceiling of the grand staircase of the Paris Opera.