Sketch for "Reception of Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie by the Kabyle Leaders at Algiers on September 18, 1860"

  • Date de création1862
  • Dimensions64.0 x 110.0 cm
A foremost painter of military subjects, Pils executed this compositional sketch in connection with a painting, nearly fifty feet in length, commemorating an 1860 visit by Napoleon III to Algeria, which had been conquered by France in 1830. The large canvas was commissioned for Versailles but its fate is unknown; it may have been destroyed in 1871, during the insurrection known as the Paris Commune.

Isidore Pils (1815 – 1875)

Découvrez Isidore Pils, peintre français célèbre pour ses scènes religieuses et militaires, dont 'Rouget de l’Isle'. Explorez ses œuvres de Rome à la Crimée – une figure clé de l'art du XIXe siècle.

À propos de cette œuvre

  • Titre: Sketch for "Reception of Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie by the Kabyle Leaders at Algiers on September 18, 1860"
  • Artiste: Isidore Pils
  • Année: 1862
  • Dimensions originales: 64.0 x 110.0 cm
  • Format: Landscape
  • Statut du droit d'auteur: Domaine public
  • Intensité des couleurs: Monochromatic
  • Luminosité perçue: deep_shadow

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