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Collection Online as of April 20, 2024
Young Man Leaning Forward with Outstretched Arms (Study for Soldiers Distributing Bread to the Poor)
c. 1851
(French, 1813/15–1875)
Sheet: 33.8 x 26.9 cm (13 5/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.361
Location: not on view
Description
This unfinished sketch is a study for Pils's lost painting Soldiers Distributing Bread to the Poor, which was inspired by an actual scene he witnessed in the center of Paris. Here the artist focused his attention on the youth's upper body and left the legs lightly sketched in, indicating that he must have executed the sketch after he had already worked out the larger composition (where the legs are obscured by a low wall).- Estate of the artist (Lugt 2030, lower right, in purple ink); [Hôtel Drouot, Paris (20 March 1876), 32, no. 297]. [Galerie Jacques Fischer-Chantal Kiener, Paris]. [Shepherd Gallery, New York]; purchased in 1977.
- Weisberg, Gabriel P. The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing, 1830-1900. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980. Mentioned cat. no. 80, p. 111-112, Reproduced: opp. p. 114Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 36, p. 82-83
- French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002).The Realist tradition : French painting and drawing, 1830-1900 / Gabriel P. Weisberg ; a special exhibition organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art, 12 November 1980 through 18 January 1981.
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