Mariah Tomb, Bachtcheh-Seraï, Crimea, August 21, 1837
Medium
Lithograph in black on grayish-ivory chine laid down on buff wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 19.1 × 35.6 cm (7 9/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Primary support: 19.2 × 25.6 cm (7 9/16 × 10 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 34.5 × 45.7 cm (13 5/8 × 18 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48612
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...