Constantin Guys
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Paris
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Dec. 13, 1892) was a Crimean War
Crimean War
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correspondent, water color painter
Watercolor painting
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and illustrator for British
United Kingdom
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and French
France
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newspapers. Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire was a French poet who produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the nineteenth century...
called him the "painter of modern life," and wrote a long essay on Guys in which he extensively praised his works, under the pseudonym "Monsieur G". Robert de Montesquiou
Robert de Montesquiou
Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac , was a French aesthete, Symbolist poet, art collector and dandy....
wrote a review of Guys that acknowledged Baudelaire's essay, compared Guys favorably to Whistler, and emphasized his portrayal of details of women's clothing, and horse carriages. His subjects were Second French Empire
Second French Empire
The Second French Empire or French Empire was the Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870, between the Second Republic and the Third Republic, in France.-Rule of Napoleon III:...
life. In the Dutch novel "Au pair" by W.F. Hermans, one of the main characters is fascinated by Constantin Guys.
Further reading
- Constantin Guys, 1802-1892. [Exhibition] June-July 1956. London: Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd.
- Geffroy, Gustave (1920). Constantin Guys, l'historien du Second Empire. Paris: G.Crès.
- Koella, Rudolf (1989). Constantin Guys. [Winterthur] : Kunstmuseum WinterthurKunstmuseum WinterthurKunstmuseum Winterthur is an art museum in Winterthur, Switzerland run up today by the local Kunstverein, founded in CHK...
. - Roger-Marx, Claude (1954). Constantin Guys, 1802-1892. Paris: Braun.
- Smith, Karen, W. (1978). Constantin Guys. Crimean War Drawings 1854-1856. Cleveland (Ohio): Cleveland Museum of Art.
Sources
- Artcyclopedia article on Constantin Guys
- http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC?vrsn=149&OP=contains&locID=22396_largo&srchtp=name&ca=1&c=1&AI=U14651981&NA=Constantin+Guys&ste=13&tbst=prp&tab=2&docNum=K1681154772&bConts=34#sourceCitationMerriam-Webster's Biographical Dictionary. Merriam-Webster Incorporated, 1995. in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2007. Document Number: K1681154772. Online. November 6, 2007]