Ali-Pacha Meiden, Smyrna
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 15.5 × 37.2 cm (6 1/8 × 14 11/16 in.); Primary support: 18.4 × 37.5 cm (7 1/4 × 14 13/16 in.); Secondary support: 25.7 × 42.6 cm (10 1/8 × 16 13/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48673
About the Artist
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet · 1804–1860
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (1804–1860) was born in Paris and displayed an early aptitude for drawing, though his initial apprenticeship was to a wood turner. He pursued art through evening classes and, at age eighteen, joined the workshop of Cabanel as a porcelain painter, where he met Rudor, who taught him lithography. Raffet studied under Nicolas Toussaint Charlet from 1824 to 1829 and completed...