The Main Street of Baghtcheh-Saraï, Crimea, August 19, 1837
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 23.3 × 32.7 cm (9 3/16 × 12 7/8 in.); Primary support: 23.5 × 33 cm (9 5/16 × 13 in.); Secondary support: 33.9 × 45.6 cm (13 3/8 × 18 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48603
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...