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Deus grisettes et deux soldats (Two grisettes with two soldiers)

Maker

(artist)
1802-1892

Title

Deus grisettes et deux soldats (Two grisettes with two soldiers)

Date of Production

circa 1860

Medium

pen and grey ink, grey wash and watercolour on wove paper (now yellowed), laid down on a laid paper support

Dimensions

Height: 24.9 cm
Width: 32.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1938.SC.125

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1938

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords






Provenance

Julian G. Lousada, London (ca. 1874-1945); exhibited at Ernest, Brown & Phillips, a.k.a. Leicester Galleries (London), January 1934; purchased there by Samuel Courtauld, London (1876-1947); Courtauld Gift 1938

Exhibition History

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962

Drawings and Engravings from the Courtauld Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, December 1959-April 1960

Samuel Courtauld memorial exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, 1948 ...More

Drawings by Constantin Guys 1805-1892, Ernest Brown & Phillips, London, 1934 (Jan.)

French exhibition, Whitechapel, London, 1932 ...Less

Literature

John House, Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector, Courtauld Institute Galleries 1994
no. 92
illus. p. 214

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 61

Drawings and engravings from the Courtauld Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, Dec. 1959 - Apr. 1960, 1959-1960
cat. no. 5 ...More

Cooper, Douglas, The Courtauld Collection, London 1954
no. 125
illus. pl. 70

Konody, P.G. and C.G. Holme, The painter of Victorian lif: a study of Constantin Guys with an introduction and a translation of Baudelaire 's Peintre de la Vie Moderne, London 1930
p. 52 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: none visible in the drawing. Support (historic): Recto, lower left corner: “F J Head” [see https://papermoulds.typepad.com/photos/m254_f_j_head_demy_laid_m/m254c-f-j-head-head-watermark.html].

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: none.

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