Antique French Oil Painting Claude Rouget de LiIsle Singing "La Marseillaise" by Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils, Circa 1849 Drawings & Prints Provenance: Abbey Picture Framing

Provenance: Abbey Picture Framing

some slight rubbing to the gilding

the masked lothario is outstretching his arm to a beautiful young lady in 18th century dress

The portrait depicting a beautiful young maiden in 18th century costume and holding a vase of flowers

she received a scholarship to work at the Art Students League of New York and was active in the WPA

Antique French Oil Painting Claude Rouget de LiIsle Singing "La Marseillaise" by Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils, Circa 1849 Drawings & Prints Provenance: Abbey Picture FramingSOLD A fine antique French oil painting on canvas by Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils (18151875), the painting depicting Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760 1836) singing "La Marseillaise", circa 1849. Isidore Pils was an academic painter, very often painting military subjects. Claude Rouget de Lisle was a French army officer from the French Revolutionary Wars and famously wrote the words to "La Marseillaise" and first performed it to the Mayor of