Three Servant Women
Constantin Guys
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and watercolor, over graphite, on cream wove paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
16.7 × 17.7 cm (6 5/8 × 7 in.)
Classification
watercolor
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
107708
Rights
Public Domain
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...