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AT-00011633The Empress Eugénie Receiving the Diplomatic Corps after the Birth of the Imperial Prince
Inscriptions
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)
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973). The Vocabulary of Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 29-December 31, 1975). 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).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Constantin Guys (French, 1805–1892)
- Date
- 1856
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown, blue, pink and yellow wash
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 22.2 x 33.1 cm (8 3/4 x 13 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Lucia McCurdy McBride
- Accession no.
- 1972.237
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