View of Yassy Taken from the Balcony of the St. Petersburg Hotel, Moldavia, July 19, 1837
Medium
Lithograph in black on gray chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 17.7 × 33.1 cm (7 × 13 1/16 in.); Primary support: 23 × 36.2 cm (9 1/16 × 14 5/16 in.); Secondary support: 35.4 × 45.7 cm (13 15/16 × 18 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48570
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...