Tartar Women at the Baïdar, Crimea, August 26, 1837
Medium
Lithograph in black on grayish-ivory chine laid down on buff wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 27.7 × 21.3 cm (10 15/16 × 8 7/16 in.); Primary support: 27.8 × 21.4 cm (11 × 8 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 45.3 × 33.1 cm (17 7/8 × 13 1/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48615
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...