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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1951.71
People
Constantin Guys, French (Flessingue, Holland 1802 - 1892 Paris, France)
Title
A Lady of Fashion
Other Titles
Alternate Title: formerly: Une Elegante
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1860
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297428

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and blue, brown and gray washes over graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
37.9 x 26.5 cm (14 15/16 x 10 7/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest from the Collection of Maurice Wertheim, Class of 1906
Accession Year
1951
Object Number
1951.71
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • The Maurice Wertheim Collection: Manet to Picasso, exh. cat., The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, TX, 1962), p. 56, pl. 22
  • The Maurice Wertheim Collection, brochure, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1970), checklist no. 27
  • John O'Brian, Degas to Matisse: the Maurice Wertheim Collection, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. and Fogg Art Museum (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, 1988), no. 1, pp. 36-37, repr. p. 37
  • Charles Baudelaire, The Parisian Prowler: Le Spleen de Paris, Petits Poèmes en prose, The University of Georgia Press (Athens, GA and London, England, 1997), repr. opp. p. 114
  • Elizabeth M. Rudy, "Researching the Wertheim Collection at the Harvard Art Museums", Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals (Summer 2014), Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 301-6

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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