One of the Ladies of the Harem (recto); Fragment of a Landscape (verso)
Constantin Guys
1854/56
Medium
Watercolor and pen and brown ink, over graphite (recto), and graphite (verso), on cream wove paper
Dimensions
36.5 × 26.4 cm (14 3/8 × 10 7/16 in.)
Classification
watercolor
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113088
About the Artist
Constantin Guys · 1802–1892
Constantin Guys, born Ernest-Adolphe-Hyacinthe-Constantin Guys de Saint-Hélène on December 3, 1802, in Vlissingen, Netherlands, to French parents François Lazare Guys and Elisabeth Bétin, spent his early years in a naval family that relocated to Calais around 1805. His early life is not well documented, with no records of formal art training, teachers, or schools; Guys appears to have been largely...