Tartar Family in Their Home, Kapskhor, Crimea, October 21, 1837
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 21.6 × 26.5 cm (8 9/16 × 10 7/16 in.); Primary support: 21.8 × 26.6 cm (8 5/8 × 10 1/2 in.); Secondary support: 29.9 × 36.8 cm (11 13/16 × 14 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48670
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...