Two Women and a Man with a Top Hat and a Monocle

Constantin Guys

19th century

Two Women and a Man with a Top Hat and a Monocle by Constantin Guys

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brown wash, some pale blue, orange and yellow wash.

Dimensions

8 5/16 x 6 5/16 in. (21.1 x 16 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1937

Accession Number

37.165.93

Tags

MenWomen

About the Artist

Constantin Guys · 18021892

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...

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