Antique French Oil Painting Claude Rouget de LiIsle Singing "La Marseillaise" by Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils, Circa 1849 Mid-Century Modern The vases are raised on

The vases are raised on gilded socle bases

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

which began in 1953 and lasted until his death in 2003

The buffet is in two sections

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 The vases are raised onSOLD 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