St. Pierre fair, Giourjevo, Wallachia, July 11, 1837
Medium
Lithograph in black on tan wove chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 19.9 × 32 cm (7 7/8 × 12 5/8 in.); Primary support: 19.9 × 32.2 cm (7 7/8 × 12 11/16 in.); Secondary support: 35.5 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48547
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...