Nicolas-François Chifflart. Man Riding a Horse through the Air. 1860–1870. France. Charcoal, with stumping and erasing, on tan laid paper, squared in white chalk, and laid down on blue wove paper with blue fibers 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 s
Nicolas-François Chifflart. Man Riding a Horse through the Air. 1860–1870. France. Charcoal, with stumping and erasing, on tan laid paper, squared in white chalk, and laid down on blue wove paper with blue fibers 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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