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Young Man Leaning Forward with Outstretched Arms (Study for Soldiers Distributing Bread to the Poor)
Isidore Pilsc. 1851
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This unfinished sketch is a study for Pils's lost painting <em>Soldiers Distributing Bread to the Poor</em>, 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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- Title: Young Man Leaning Forward with Outstretched Arms (Study for Soldiers Distributing Bread to the Poor)
- Creator: Isidore Pils (French, 1813/15-1875)
- Date Created: c. 1851
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 33.8 x 26.9 cm (13 5/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
- 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.
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.361
- Medium: oil, brown oil wash or ink wash, and black crayon
- Inscriptions: by artist, lower left, in red chalk: Victor Boissé / [DF?]D [crossed out]; passage St Maur no 4 / chez M Morel. [underlined twice]; upper right, in brown ink: B2. No 9- 28; lower center, in red chalk: [No?] 42; verso of primary? support, upper left, in ink?: 666 [underlined]
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Collection: DR - French
- Accession Number: 2008.361
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