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Young Woman in a Prison Cell

Date

1828-1875

Creator

Isidore Pils

Location

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art

In a constricted space suggestive of a prison cell, a young woman dressed in black looks upward...A sense of claustrophobia surrounds the carefully observed figure. At the upper left, a small window allows a little light into the gloomy room, illuminating the wall directly to her right. The woman seems lost in contemplation, as if awaiting some news or divine intervention, but the exact nature of the narrative is unknown. from Weisberg, Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art (Notre Dame, 2012)

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In a constricted space suggestive of a prison cell, a young woman dressed in black looks upward...A sense of claustrophobia surrounds the carefully observed figure. At the upper left, a small window allows a little light into the gloomy room, illuminating the wall directly to her right. The woman seems lost in contemplation, as if awaiting some news or divine intervention, but the exact nature of the narrative is unknown. from Weisberg, Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art (Notre Dame, 2012)
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  • In a constricted space suggestive of a prison cell, a young woman dressed in black looks upward...A sense of claustrophobia surrounds the carefully observed figure. At the upper left, a small window allows a little light into the gloomy room, illuminating the wall directly to her right. The woman seems lost in contemplation, as if awaiting some news or divine intervention, but the exact nature of the narrative is unknown. from Weisberg, Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art (Notre Dame, 2012)
  • In a constricted space suggestive of a prison cell, a young woman dressed in black looks upward...A sense of claustrophobia surrounds the carefully observed figure. At the upper left, a small window allows a little light into the gloomy room, illuminating the wall directly to her right. The woman seems lost in contemplation, as if awaiting some news or divine intervention, but the exact nature of the narrative is unknown. from Weisberg, Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art (Notre Dame, 2012)
  • In a constricted space suggestive of a prison cell, a young woman dressed in black looks upward...A sense of claustrophobia surrounds the carefully observed figure. At the upper left, a small window allows a little light into the gloomy room, illuminating the wall directly to her right. The woman seems lost in contemplation, as if awaiting some news or divine intervention, but the exact nature of the narrative is unknown. from Weisberg, Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art (Notre Dame, 2012)
Isidore Pils (French, 1813 or 1815 - 1875)
1828-1875
Paintings
Oil on canvas
2009.045.112
prisoners
women
Raclin Murphy Museum: 109
53 x 39 1/2 in. (134.62 x 100.33 cm)
The Muriel S. and Noah L. Butkin Collection

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