Isidore Pils

Study for Clovis (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858); verso: Head of a Soldier (unrelated to Sainte-Clotilde decorations)

19th century
Black chalk, stumped, heightened with white gouache, on gray paper (recto); black chalk (verso)
34.8 × 27 cm (13.7 × 10.6 in)

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