Antique French Oil Painting Claude Rouget de LiIsle Singing "La Marseillaise" by Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils, Circa 1849 Drawings & Prints The painting is signed lower

The painting is signed lower right "R

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

the central panel decorated with a flowering vase

Two cupboards over two cupboards with two central drawers

The stepped pediment to the top having a concealed drawer

Antique French Oil Painting Claude Rouget de LiIsle Singing "La Marseillaise" by Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils, Circa 1849 Drawings & Prints The painting is signed lowerSOLD 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