Horse In The Stable Oil On Canvas

Horse in the stable, oil on canvas signed I.Pils (1815-1875) Isidore Pils is a French painter. Winner of the Prix de Rome in 1938. He left for the Académie de France at the Villa Medici, then Naples, Venice and Florence during his stay in Italy. Initially a painter of religious scenes, he turned to military subjects from 1854-55, when he accompanied the French troops in Crimea and the Orient. In 1863 he left for Algeria where he stayed two years and where he produced orientalist compositions. Back in France, Charles Garnier called on him to participate in the decor of the Opéra Garnier. His most famous work is Rouget de l'Isle singing the Marseillaise 1849 preserved at the Historical Museum of Strasbourg.