The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of June 26, 2022

In Expectation

1800s

Constantin Guys

(French, 1805-1892)

France, 19th century

Pen and black ink and brush and black ink and black, gray and green wash

Support: Yellow-beige wove? paper, laid down on board, laid down on a tertiary suppport of cream(3) wove paper; strip of newspaper attached to right edge

Sheet: 30.4 x 20.5 cm (11 15/16 x 8 1/16 in.); Secondary Support: 30.4 x 20.5 cm (11 15/16 x 8 1/16 in.); Tertiary Support: 30.4 x 20.5 cm (11 15/16 x 8 1/16 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1926.51

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

by artist?, lower right, in brown ink: [e?]n expectation ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower center, in graphite: 98 18

Provenance
John Quinn Coll.
John Quinn (not stamped, not in Lugt) (according to departmental card). [Joseph Brummer Gallery, New York]
Citations
“Lists of Objects in the Exhibition.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 16, no. 9 (1929): 159–75. Mentioned: p. 161 www.jstor.org
Exhibition history

CMA, "Museum Drawings, Gallery VIII" (June 12-Nov. 7, 1951).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection, Gallery VIII" (June 15, 1949-Apr. 24, 1950).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection, Gallery VIII" (July 3-Nov. 7, 1948).

CMA, "Drawings in Gallery VIII" (June 10, 1947-Apr. 26, 1948).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Director's Corridor) (May 14, 1946-...).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Director's Corridor) (July 27, 1944-May 14, 1946).

CMA, Exhibition of French Art (June 22-Aug. 31, 1943).

CMA, French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections (among CMA drawings supplementing this show) (Jan. 6-Feb. 15, 1942).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (July 11-Oct. 3, 1940).

CMA, "Drawings by Old and Modern Masters from the Collection" (June 21-Sep. 30, 1938).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (May 28-Nov. 7, 1937).

CMA, "75 Drawings from the Collection" (Feb. 10-Apr. 28, 1937).

CMA, Lace and Drawings from the Museum Collection (Dec. 16, 1936-Jan. 3, 1937).

CMA, "Forty Drawings from the Collection" (May 21-Dec. 13, 1936).

CMA, "Gallery I" (Feb. 15-Mar. 30, 1934).

CMA, "Drawings by Old and Modern Masters from the Collection" (June 5, 1930-Jan. 9, 1931; Feb. 20-Mar. 15, 1931; June 10, 1931-Jan. 16, 1932).

French Art Since Eighteen Hundred. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 8-December 8, 1929).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-April 28, 1937).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 28-December 9, 1937).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-October 3, 1940).

French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 6-February 15, 1942).

19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 1, 1943).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1926.51