Standing Woman
Constantin Guys
c. 1870–1875
Medium
Pen and brown ink, and brush and black, gray and brown wash, on cream wove paper (discolored to tan)
Dimensions
35.2 × 25.5 cm (13 7/8 × 10 1/16 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
14827
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...