Cavalry crossing a River in Crimea

Details

Constantin Guys (1802-1892)
Cavalry crossing a River in Crimea
signed, dated and inscribed 'Crimée 1855 C. Guys'
pen and brown ink, watercolour
171 x 255 mm.

Provenance

With Marlborough Fine Art, London, 19th and 20th Century Watercolours, Drawings and Sculptures, 1963, no. 27.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Avnet, New York; Christie's, 30 November 1971, lot 346, illustrated (630 gns. to Davidson).

Lot Essay

Guys was sent to cover the Crimean War by the Illustrated London News in 1853. He went first to Constantinople, and then along the Danube and to Greece. He arrived in Crimea in October 1854 and stayed three months. He returned from January to April 1855, and then from June to July. He executed there numerous annotated drawings that he sent to London to be engraved.

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