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Constantin Guys

1802

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Constantin Guys was a French Crimean War correspondent, water color painter and illustrator for British and French newspapers.

Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago

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Artworks (14)

Standing Woman

1870 · Pen and brown ink, and brush and black, gray and brown wash, on cream wove paper (discolored to tan)

35.2 × 25.5 cm (13 7/8 × 10 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Women Dancing in a Brothel

1865 · Brown ink and gray wash on off-white, heavy wove paper mounted on cardboard

6 7/8 x 9 13/16 in. (17.4 x 25 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Young Woman in a Blue and Black Dress

1863 · Pen and brown ink with watercolor wash on off-white wove paper

8 1/2 x 6 5/8 in. (21.6 x 16.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Three-Quarter Length Portrait of a Woman

1860 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, over graphite, on ivory wove paper

28.8 × 19.6 cm (11 3/8 × 7 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Two Gentlemen and a Lady

1855 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown, green and blue wash, over graphite with touches of red chalk

sheet: 9 5/8 x 7 5/16 in. (24.4 x 18.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte on the Second of December

1851 · Graphite, brown ink, and gray wash on off-white wove paper

6 5/16 x 11 5/8 in. (16.1 x 29.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Parisienne Seen from the Back

1850 · graphite, brown ink, gray and brown wash on buff wove paper darkened through exposure to light

9 13/16 x 7 5/16 in. (24.9 x 18.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Carriage in London

1848 · Pen and brown ink with watercolor over graphite on heavy buff wove paper

11 9/16 x 17 5/16 in. (29.3 x 43.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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