Portrait of Juguda Kazaz, Misiz, at Work as a Tomb Sculptor in the Josaphat Valley, Near Tchioufout-Galeh, Crimea
Medium
Lithograph in black on gray wove chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 25.5 × 19.5 cm (10 1/16 × 7 11/16 in.); Primary support: 25.6 × 19.7 cm (10 1/8 × 7 13/16 in.); Secondary support: 45.2 × 34.9 cm (17 13/16 × 13 3/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48597
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...