Two Women in Yellow Kerchiefs
Constantin Guys
n.d.
Medium
Brush and watercolor, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
31 × 21.8 cm (12 1/4 × 8 5/8 in.)
Classification
watercolor
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
14721
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...