Isidore PILS (Paris 1813 - Douarnenez 1875) Rouget de Lisle singing the Marseillaise at Dietrick's, the mayor of Strasbourg Paper mounted on canvas 26 x 33.5 cm Signed and dated lower left "I. Pils 1847"; inscribed in pencil on the reverse of the stretcher "1848 I. Pils" on the reverse. Old restorations, accidents, missing parts and lifts First sketch by Pils for the painting presented at the Salon of 1849 (canvas, 72.5 x 91 cm) in the collections of the Musée du Louvre and on deposit at the Musée historique de Strasbourg.