Three-Quarter Length Portrait of a Woman
Constantin Guys
1865/70
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, over graphite, on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
28.8 × 19.6 cm (11 3/8 × 7 3/4 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
13572
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...