Women Dancing in a Brothel
Constantin Guys
ca. 1865
Medium
Brown ink and gray wash on off-white, heavy wove paper mounted on cardboard
Dimensions
6 7/8 x 9 13/16 in. (17.4 x 25 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.639
Tags
WomenDancingGuitarsHarps
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...