Art Institute of Chicago
Man Riding a Horse through the Air
François Chifflart
- Date
- 1860–70
- Medium
- Charcoal, with stumping and erasing, on tan laid paper, squared in white chalk, and laid down on blue wove paper with blue fibers
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Son of a locksmith, Chifflart studied in Italy from 1851 to 1856, returning to Paris as an exponent of the Romantic revival of the late 1850s. The writer Charles Baudelaire saw in Chifflart’s work a new and dynamic art of the imagination, in opposition to the rising tide of Realism. Although influential for Victor Hugo, Rodolphe Bresdin, and Odilon Redon, Chifflart was not a popular success, and his drawings are exceedingly rare as a result.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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