Head of an Arab
Isidore Pils French
Not on view
Pils spent two years living in the Kabylie region of Northern Algeria, studying the landscape and people in preparation for a commission commemorating the visit of Emperor Napoléon III and Empress Eugénie to the area in 1860. This pastel drawing of a distinguished sitter wearing a voluminous burnous (hooded cloak) was likely intended as an independent work based on its large scale and the fact that the artist signed the sheet.