Traveling Tartar Family, Near Yalta, Crimea, August 15, 1837
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 23.7 × 34 cm (9 3/8 × 13 7/16 in.); Primary support: 23.9 × 34.3 cm (9 7/16 × 13 9/16 in.); Secondary support: 29.1 × 39.5 cm (11 1/2 × 15 9/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48588
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...