Praying Tartars, Istrimdjami-Kara-sou-Bazar, Crimea, October 19, 1837
Medium
Lithograph in black on gray chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 18.6 × 37.3 cm (7 3/8 × 14 11/16 in.); Primary support: 18.8 × 37.7 cm (7 7/16 × 14 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 27.5 × 44.2 cm (10 7/8 × 17 7/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48667
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...