Cleveland Museum of Art

Young Man Leaning Forward with Outstretched Arms (Study for Soldiers Distributing Bread to the Poor)

Isidore PilsLinkedCulture matchlcp-365c3908867e

Date: c. 1851
Medium: oil, brown oil wash or ink wash, and black crayon
Culture: France, 19th century
Department: Drawings
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 166641

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This unfinished sketch is a study for Isidore Pils's painting Soldiers Distributing Bread to the Poor , which was inspired by an actual scene he witnessed in the center of Paris. Here the artist focused his attention on the youth's upper body and left the legs lightly sketched in, indicating that he must have executed the sketch after he had already worked out the larger composition (where the legs are obscured by a low wall).

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Credit line: Bequest of Muriel Butkin
Provenance: Estate of the artist (Lugt 2030, lower right, in purple ink); [Hôtel Drouot, Paris (20 March 1876), 32, no. 297]. [Galerie Jacques Fischer-Chantal Kiener, Paris]. [Shepherd Gallery, New York]; purchased in 1977.

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