Courtyard of the Quarantine General, Skoulani, Bessarabia
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 14.8 × 32.2 cm (5 7/8 × 12 11/16 in.); Primary support: 14.9 × 32.2 cm (5 7/8 × 12 11/16 in.); Secondary support: 26.3 × 41.8 cm (10 3/8 × 16 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48577
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...