Karaimes, Théodosie, Kaffa, 1 Octobre 1837
Medium
Lithograph in black on buff chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 27.5 × 22.2 cm (10 7/8 × 8 3/4 in.); Primary support: 28.5 × 22.2 cm (11 1/4 × 8 3/4 in.); Seconcary support: 34.8 × 25.4 cm (13 3/4 × 10 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48636
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...