Antique French Oil Painting Claude Rouget de LiIsle Singing "La Marseillaise" by Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils, Circa 1849 Recently Added This very attractive still life

This very attractive still life is from the very begining of American Abstract Expressionism

The base with four panels also decorated with domestic scenes

Moscow Kokoshnik mark

"Prise de Corsaire" (The Pirate's Prize) and signed "Villanis" to the lower right side

who had also been the master of Corot

Antique French Oil Painting Claude Rouget de LiIsle Singing "La Marseillaise" by Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils, Circa 1849 Recently Added This very attractive still lifeSOLD 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