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Two women dressed in gowns

Maker

(artist)
1802-1892

Title

Two women dressed in gowns

Date of Production

1875-1880

Medium

graphite and brown wash on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 18.5 cm
Width: 14.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1948.SC.132

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, bequest, 1948

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Provenance

Bernheim-Jeune (Paris); exhibited at Ernest, Brown & Phillips, a.k.a. Leicester Galleries (London), January 1934; purchased there by Samuel Courtauld, London (1876-1947); Courtauld Bequest 1948

Exhibition History

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

Samuel Courtauld memorial exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, 1948

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

Literature

John House, Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector, Courtauld Institute Galleries 1994
no. 96
illus. p. 215

Cooper, Douglas, The Courtauld Collection, London 1954
no. 132
illus. pl. 76

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper centre, blue crayon (same hand on D.1948.SC.131): "24545/490 / 2 femmes / 19 x 14 1/2"; upper right, graphite: "1500"; left centre, graphite, every third number superscript: "178 x 137 autre / 253 x 207 une".

Collector's mark: none.

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