Young Karaïme Woman, Tchioufout-Galech Near Baghtcheh-Saraï, Crimea
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 25.6 × 20.2 cm (10 1/8 × 8 in.); Primary support: 25.7 × 20.3 cm (10 1/8 × 8 in.); Secondary support: 40.3 × 30 cm (15 7/8 × 11 13/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48594
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...