Constantin Guys (1805-1892)

La Grande-Chaumière: Courtesans Dancing with Sailors

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Constantin Guys (1805-1892)
La Grande-Chaumière: Courtesans Dancing with Sailors
pen and brown ink, grey, brown and red wash, ink gall damage
200 x 270 mm.; and a drawing by Guys of the interior of a brothel (2)
Provenance
(1) T. and J. Beltrand.
(1) With Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Constantin Guys, 1952.
(1) With Knöll, Zürich.
(1) With Marlborough Fine Art, London, 19th and 20th Century Watercolours, Drawings and Sculptures, 1963, no. 96.
Literature
G. Geffroy, Constantin Guys, l'historien du Second Empire, Paris, 1904, p. 112.

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