Halting Place of a Moldavian Caravan Transporting Coal, Bessarabia, August 5, 1837
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory chine laid down on buff wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 32.5 × 17 cm (12 13/16 × 6 3/4 in.); Primary support: 17 × 32.6 cm (6 3/4 × 12 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 21.7 × 35.5 cm (8 9/16 × 14 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48578
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...