Two Women of Pleasure
Constantin Guys
1860s?
Medium
graphite and black wash
Dimensions
sheet: 16.9 × 19.6 cm (6 5/8 × 7 11/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Edith Tanenbaum Rudolf Collection
Accession Number
2018.26.12
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...