Antique French Oil Painting Claude Rouget de LiIsle Singing "La Marseillaise" by Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils, Circa 1849 Drawings & Prints the urns on gilded bronze

the urns on gilded bronze tripod supports

below is an intricately engraved brass lock-plate

The bronze is most likely Florentine and modeled as the 13th century Italian Poet

opulent glow

The sphere having an orange base with a band of clear glass to the center

Antique French Oil Painting Claude Rouget de LiIsle Singing "La Marseillaise" by Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils, Circa 1849 Drawings & Prints the urns on gilded bronzeSOLD 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