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The Empress Eugénie Receiving the Diplomatic Corps after the Birth of the Imperial Prince

1856

Constantin Guys

(French, 1805–1892)

France, 19th century

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown, blue, pink and yellow wash

Support: Cream(3) wove paper

Sheet: 22.2 x 33.1 cm (8 3/4 x 13 1/16 in.)

Bequest of Lucia McCurdy McBride 1972.237

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

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

Provenance
Sir William Ingram (not stamped not in Lugt) (according to an old label from Kraushaar Art Galleries); [C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York] (according to an old label, now removed and in departmental file)
Citations
Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1972." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 3 (1973): 63-115. p. 111 no. 184. www.jstor.org
Exhibition history

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.

Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).

Rococo, Revolution, Restoration. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-September 24, 1989).

French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).

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