Preliminary communication
Constantin Guys, the Croatian Portative Narguilé – the Drawing from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Slaven Perović
; The Mimara Museum, Zagreb
Abstract
The author corrects the erroneous title of a drawing by Constantin Guys preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, proposing the title Croatian Portative Narguilé. The drawing shows Croats in Balaklava during the Crimean War (1853 – 1856). The author dates the drawing to 1885 and associates it to the drawing in the Smith College Museum of Art entitled Croats’ Camp at Balaclava, in which he identified Guys’s self-portrait. The paper includes an illustration of the Croats’ Camp at Balaclava after Guys published in The Illustrated London News in 1885. On the basis of historical facts, the author determines the precise date of execution of the New York drawing, between February and July 1855.
Keywords
Constantin Guys; Croats; Balaklava; Crimean War (1853–1856); self-portrait
Hrčak ID:
157243
URI
Publication date:
1.1.2016.
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