Café Scene | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1929.84
People: Constantin Guys, French (Flessingue, Holland 1802 - 1892 Paris, France)
Title: Café Scene
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 19th century
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/299210

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Brown ink with brown and gray wash on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: sight: 17.9 x 28.3 cm (7 1/16 x 11 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Philip Hofer, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1929

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Philip Hofer
Accession Year: 1929
Object Number: 1929.84
Division: European and American Art
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Publication History

Lloyd Goodrich, "Constantin Guys", Arts (March 1926), IX, pp. 123-142, p. 123, repr.
Independent Painters of Nineteenth Century Paris, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1935), no. 150
Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 696, fig. 368

Exhibition History

Independent Painters of 19th Century Paris, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 03/15/1935 - 04/28/1935

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1929.84: Café Scene