The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2023

Five Equestrian Studies: Cavalrymen

mid 19th century

Auguste Raffet

(French, 1804–1860)

France, 19th century

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over graphite, with red chalk wash

Support: Beige(1) laid paper

Sheet: 23.5 x 30.5 cm (9 1/4 x 12 in.)

Gift of Alida di Nardo in memory of her husband, Antonio di Nardo 1956.601

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

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

CMA, Animals As Romantic Icons in French Art (Apr. 8-July 27, 1986).

CMA, Constantin Guys: Crimean War Drawings 1854-1856 (July 18-Sep. 3, 1978).

Animals as Romantic Icons in French Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 6-July 27, 1986).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1956.601