The Empress Eugénie Receiving the Diplomatic Corps after the Birth of the Imperial Prince
1856
Constantin Guys
Constantin Guys (French, 1805–1892)
Drawings
The Empress Eugénie Receiving the Diplomatic Corps after the Birth of the Imperial Prince, 1856. Constantin Guys (French, 1805–1892). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown, blue, pink and yellow wash; sheet: 22.2 x 33.1 cm (8 3/4 x 13 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Lucia McCurdy McBride 1972.237
- Maker/Artist
- Guys, Constantin
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown, blue, pink and yellow wash
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 22.2 x 33.1 cm (8 3/4 x 13 1/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: VERSO, lower center, in graphite: 34 ; ON SEPERATELY APPLIED PIECE OF PAPER (now removed), printed in black ink: From / C.W. KRAUSHAAR / ART GALLERIES / 730 FIFTH AVENUE / HECKSCHER BUILDING / NEW YORK / ESTABLISHED 1885 / [the rest typewritten in black ink] "The Empress (Eugenie) receiving the Corps Diplo- / matique, after the birth of the Prince Imperial" / Water color drawing by / CONSTANTIN GUYS / Collection of Sir William Ingres
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1972.237
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Lucia McCurdy McBride
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1972, Rococo, Revolution, Restoration, French Drawings from the Collection, CMA, Urban Vicissitudes (June 25-Sep. 29, 1985) [?: in the show or not?: there is label copy for the drawing among that for the show, but the drawing does not appear on the checklist--?]., CMA, Constantin Guys: Crimean War Drawings 1854-1856 (July 18-Sep. 3, 1978)., CMA, "Gallery J--Drawings" (July 29, 1975-Feb. 1976?) (is among a list of drawings in Gallery J, this list being found at the end of a list of prints that were in other galleries from July 29, 1975-Feb. 1976 for a little show called "The Vocabulary of Prints"--see exhs. file)., New York, Shepherd Gallery, Ingres and Delacroix through Degas and Puvis de Chavannes: The Figure in French Art 1800-1870 (May-June 1975), no. 46, illus.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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