Constantin Guys
Portrait of a Woman
1846
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Constantin Guys
Portrait of a Woman
1846
Physical Qualities
Pen and iron gall ink and watercolor over graphite, Sheet: 167 x 120 mm. (16.7 x 12 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Blanche Adler
Object Number
1935.37.1
Woman, 3/4 length, 3/4 view, wearing a blue morning dress with long, V-shaped waist band terminating in an 'atrophied apron'; bodice is slit in center revealing white blouse beneath; simple collar, fastened at neck with bow; 3/4-length sleeves narrowly cut, flared at bottom
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1935; Blanche Adler (1877(?)-1941), Baltimore; Félix Nadar (1820-1910), Paris.
Inscribed: RECTO: TLC, stamp, 'C. Guys/Collection/Nadar' [Lugt 1929]; VERSO: C, graphite, '198 H GA'
