Antique French Oil Painting Claude Rouget de LiIsle Singing "La Marseillaise" by Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils, Circa 1849 Mid-Century Modern 5 cm X 28 cm

5 cm X 28 cm

during the fighting for the liberation of the port of Le Havre

The vase of globular form and having a flared neck

The vases are raised on gilded socle bases

in a time when the city streets were putrid smelling a vinaigreete would offer aromatic relief with a sponge in the base with fragrant oils to place under the nose

Antique French Oil Painting Claude Rouget de LiIsle Singing "La Marseillaise" by Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils, Circa 1849 Mid-Century Modern 5 cm X 28 cmSOLD 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