Armenians and Tartars in a Cafe
Medium
Lithograph in black on gray chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 19.3 × 27.7 cm (7 5/8 × 10 15/16 in.); Primary support: 19.3 × 27.8 cm (7 5/8 × 11 in.); Secondary support: 31.3 × 37.6 cm (12 3/8 × 14 13/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48642
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...