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Afternoon Tea
Jean-François Rafaëlli (French, 1850–1924)
c. 1880
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 34.9 × 28.6 cm (13 3/4 × 11 1/4 in.); Framed: 42.6 × 38.1 × 6.4 cm (16 3/4 × 15 × 2 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
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About this work
Raffaëlli was a French realist painter, sculptor, and printmaker who exhibited with the Impressionists. He was also active as an actor and writer. Early in his career, his work focused primarily on costume pictures, but in 1876 he began to depict the people of his time—notably peasants, workers, and ragpickers in the suburbs of Paris—like the couple featured in this painting.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
