Antique French Oil Painting Claude Rouget de LiIsle Singing "La Marseillaise" by Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils, Circa 1849 Drawings & Prints Lot# 366 on June 10th

Lot# 366 on June 10th 2008 for $32

some slight rubbing to the gilding

The painting is signed lower right "R

these fish are highly prized by the Chinese as symbols of prosperity & good fortune

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

Antique French Oil Painting Claude Rouget de LiIsle Singing "La Marseillaise" by Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils, Circa 1849 Drawings & Prints Lot# 366 on June 10thSOLD 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