Man Riding a Horse through the Air
Nicolas-François Chifflart
1860–1870
- 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.)
- Genre
- charcoal
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
squaring (transferring technique)erasingdrawings (visual works)chalk sticksplant materialwhite chalkprints and drawingstumpingdrawing techniquespaper (fiber product)charcoal
About
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.
