Turn by the Belltower, Framework Pending the Turkish Occupation
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 23.2 × 20.8 cm (9 3/16 × 8 1/4 in.); Primary support: 23.2 × 21 cm (9 3/16 × 8 5/16 in.); Secondary support: 40.2 × 32 cm (15 7/8 × 12 5/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48543
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...