Tartar Peasants' Homes in the Village of Déré-Koui, near Yalta, Crimea, August 31, 1837
Medium
Lithograph in black on gray chine laid down on buff wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 24.4 × 31.6 cm (9 5/8 × 12 1/2 in.); Primary support: 24.4 × 31.8 cm (9 5/8 × 12 9/16 in.); Secondary support: 35.7 × 42.7 cm (14 1/16 × 16 13/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48626
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...