Isidore Pils

Drapery Study for Sainte-Clotilde (upper register); verso: Standing Soldier; (studies for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

19th century
Red and white chalk on tracing paper (recto); black chalk (verso); pasted onto larger sheet; (verso visible through tracing paper)
43.2 × 24.8 cm (17 × 9.8 in)

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