| Artist | Isidore Pils, French, Paris 1813–Douarnenez, Brittany 1875 |
| Title, Date | Study for “Soldiers Distributing Bread to the Poor”, c. 1852 |
| Medium | Red chalk on oatmeal paper |
| Dimensions | 8 1/2 × 7 3/4 in. (21.6 × 19.7 cm) |
| Inscriptions + Marks | Lower right: I. PILS stamp |
| Provenance | [Galerie Chantal Kiener, Paris; to Weisberg]; Yvonne and Gabriel Weisberg, Minneapolis |
| Exhibition History | "The Quieter Image: 19th Century European Drawings and Watercolors," Carleton Art Gallery, Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., 1996, no. 37; "Expanding the Boundaries: Selected Drawings from the Yvonne and Gabriel P. Weisberg Collection," Mia (2008) and Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, Ind. (2010); "Reflections on Reality: Drawings and Paintings from the Weisberg Collection," Mia, 2022–23 |
| References | Gabriel P. Weisberg, "Early Realist Drawings of Isidore Pils," "Master Drawings," vol. 28, no. 4 (Winter 1990), p. 398, fig. 11; Lisa Dickinson Michaux with Gabriel P. Weisberg, "Expanding the Boundaries: Selected Drawings from the Yvonne and Gabriel P. Weisberg Collection" (exh. cat.), Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, 2008), pp. 24–27, fig. 7 |
| Credit Line | Promised gift of Gabriel P. and Yvonne M.L. Weisberg, Minneapolis |