Antique French Oil Painting Claude Rouget de LiIsle Singing "La Marseillaise" by Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils, Circa 1849 Mid-Century Modern Maurice Montégut (1855-1911)

Maurice Montégut (1855-1911)

5 cm X 28 cm

Postal Scale by Fairbanks

He famously designed the Tony Award winning sets for Truman Capote's 1954 Broadway musical "House of Flowers"

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

Antique French Oil Painting Claude Rouget de LiIsle Singing "La Marseillaise" by Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils, Circa 1849 Mid-Century Modern Maurice Montégut (1855-1911)SOLD 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