Man Riding a Horse through the Air

Prints and Drawings

1860–70

Nicolas-François Chifflart
French, 1825-1901

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.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Nicolas-François Chifflart
Title: Man Riding a Horse through the Air
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
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Medium: Charcoal, with stumping and erasing, on tan laid paper, squared in white chalk, and laid down on blue wove paper with blue fibers
Dimensions: 61.5 × 47.4 cm (24 1/4 × 18 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Suzanne Searle Dixon Fund and Endowment
Reference Number: 1991.124
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