id: 146817 accession number: 1972.237 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.237 updated: 2023-03-11 20:50:57.823000 The Empress Eugénie Receiving the Diplomatic Corps after the Birth of the Imperial Prince, 1856. Constantin Guys (French, 1805–1892). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown, blue, pink and yellow wash; sheet: 22.2 x 33.1 cm (8 3/4 x 13 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Lucia McCurdy McBride 1972.237 title: The Empress Eugénie Receiving the Diplomatic Corps after the Birth of the Imperial Prince title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1856 creation date earliest: 1856 creation date latest: 1856 current location: creditline: Bequest of Lucia McCurdy McBride copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: pen and brown ink and brush and brown, blue, pink and yellow wash department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Constantin Guys (French, 1805–1892) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 22.2 x 33.1 cm (8 3/4 x 13 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream(3) wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: 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 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1972 opening date: 1973-02-27T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973). title: Rococo, Revolution, Restoration opening date: 1989-07-11T04:00:00 Rococo, Revolution, Restoration. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-September 24, 1989). title: French Drawings from the Collection opening date: 1994-12-13T05:00:00 French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, Urban Vicissitudes (June 25-Sep. 29, 1985) [?: in the show or not?: there is label copy for the drawing among that for the show, but the drawing does not appear on the checklist--?]. * CMA, Constantin Guys: Crimean War Drawings 1854-1856 (July 18-Sep. 3, 1978). * CMA, "Gallery J--Drawings" (July 29, 1975-Feb. 1976?) (is among a list of drawings in Gallery J, this list being found at the end of a list of prints that were in other galleries from July 29, 1975-Feb. 1976 for a little show called "The Vocabulary of Prints"--see exhs. file). * New York, Shepherd Gallery, Ingres and Delacroix through Degas and Puvis de Chavannes: The Figure in French Art 1800-1870 (May-June 1975), no. 46, illus. --- 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) date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1972." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 3 (1973): 63-115. page number: p. 111 no. 184. url: www.jstor.org/stable/25093732 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.237/1972.237_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.237/1972.237_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.237/1972.237_full.tif