Raffaelli, Jean Francois (1850-1924) - 1882c. Le Terrain Vague (Art Institute of Chicago)

            Jean-Francois Raffaëlli was born in Paris in 1850. His first love was music and at one time he wanted to be an opera singer, but he was eventually drawn to painting. In 1870, he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in order to study under Gerome. He remained exclusively a painter until 1876 when he did his first etching. From this time on he was passionately devoted to printmaking, experimenting extensively with color etching. He became very proficient at this technique and in 1904 founded the "Salon de 1'eau forte en couleurs."

Raffaëlli had been a great friend of the Impressionists, particularly Degas, Pissarro, and Mary Cassatt. But bitter quarrels with Degas, and his own growing success in the Salons, eventually caused him to move away from that group, and more and more into the world of the official art establishment. He was basically an Impressionist and remained true to the subjects he knew best, such as the suburbs of Paris, the landscapes and villages along the Seine, the animals of the countryside, the haunts of the working class people, the beggars, the ragpickers, the factories and the landmarks around Paris. He has been called the "Zola de la peinture", and "le peintre de la banlicue parisienne".

Taken on: August 15, 2008

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