This artist’s barbaric and childlike drawings are described in a work that praises him as a “passionate spectator” and a “man of the world.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this French watercolor artist and Crimean War correspondent whom Charles Baudelaire declared “the painter of modern life.”
ANSWER: Constantin Guys (“gheez”) [or Ernest-Adolphe Guys de Saint-Hélène; prompt on M.G.]
[10h] In one of Guys’s many depictions of this class of working-class French women, two of them appear in front of a pair of top hat-wearing men. Patricia Tillburg analyzed the midinette as a descendant of these women, whose French name reflects their simple clothes.
ANSWER: grisettes [or grizettes; accept Two Grisettes]
[10e] Baudelaire claimed that Guys would likely ignore “ancient statuary” for an opportunity to “savor” a portrait of a woman by Thomas Lawrence or this other artist, the first president of the Royal Academy of Arts.
ANSWER: Joshua Reynolds
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