Sheet of Sketches for a Monument to Dante (recto); Cupid and Psyche (verso)

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Prints and Drawings

c. 1808

Isidore Pils
French, 1813-1875

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils
Title: Sheet of Sketches for a Monument to Dante (recto); Cupid and Psyche (verso)
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1798–1823
Medium: Brush and brown ink, and white gouache, over graphite (recto and verso), on blue laid paper
Dimensions: 28.9 × 44.5 cm (11 7/16 × 17 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Prints and Drawings Purchase Fund
Reference Number: 1956.57
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Vallery-Radot, French Drawings (New York, 1964), p. 105 (ill.) (recto).
“Recent Acquisitions,” The Art Quarterly 19 (1956), p. 422 (recto).
Lu Bro, Drawing: A Studio Guide (New York, 1978), p. 126 (ill.) (recto).
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks from the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 2E1 and 2E2 (recto).
Sylvain Laveissiere, Prud’hon: La Justice et la Vengence Divine Pour Suivant le Crime (Paris, 1986) (recto).

New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 74, as “Minerva, Poet Laureate and Other Studies.” (recto)
Paris, Musée du Louvre, “Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso,” October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 28 (ill.) (verso).
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, “Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago,” February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 68-69, cat. 30 (ill.) (recto).

Sold by Knoedler and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1956.

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