SwissArtGallery · Documented identity
Jean-François Raffaëlli, born in Paris in 1850, who died in 1924, found many of his subjects on the city’s edges. Living for years in Asnières, he observed suburban landscapes and their inhabitants. The Exhausted Ragpicker, a print of 1880, depicts a worker collecting reusable refuse, a figure displaced towards the outskirts by the transformation of Paris. He exhibited several states of this print at the fifth Impressionist exhibition.
His graphic experiments also explored colour. For The Abandoned Road, he used drypoint and a separate copperplate for each colour, printing a small number of impressions himself. The same territory nourished his painting: Winter in the Suburbs is an oil on canvas measuring twenty-four by thirty-three centimetres. Attention to ordinary places thus unfolds through several different techniques and formats.
This profile brings together identity references for Jean-François Raffaëlli and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer · Piguet
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Oil on canvas
Scène de parc avec lévrier
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2019-03-20
Published result : 9723 CHF
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : CHF 10000–15000
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Charcoal
Portrait de Mademoiselle Paula Rebion
fusain
Catalogue period : 2013-06-19
Published result : 600 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 600–800
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Gouache
Attribué à Jean-François Raffaelli — Scène de rue,
gouache
attr. à
Catalogue period : 2019-05-22
Attributed to
Published result : 5000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 5000–7000
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Oil on canvas
Attribué à Jean-François Raffaelli — Nature morte à la coupe de fruits,
huile sur toile
attr. à
Catalogue period : 2019-05-22
Attributed to
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 4000–6000
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