Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011915Five Equestrian Studies: Cavalrymen
Inscriptions
signed, lower right, in brown ink: Raffet ; VERSO, center right, in graphite: Lot 401 [underlined] / Hotel Drouot / Vente Chardey / 14-17 Mai /77 [slash part of inscription] [sideways]
Provenance
Chardey Chardey (not stamped, not in Lugt) (according to inscription on verso); [his sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 14-17 May 1877, lot 401] (according to inscription on verso)
Exhibition history
Animals as Romantic Icons in French Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 6-July 27, 1986).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Auguste Raffet (French, 1804–1860)
- Date
- mid 19th century
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over graphite, with red chalk wash
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 23.5 x 30.5 cm (9 1/4 x 12 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Alida di Nardo in memory of her husband, Antonio di Nardo
- Accession no.
- 1956.601
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