# Afternoon Tea

- By: Jean-François Rafaëlli (French, 1850–1924)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/186425)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/86ebcfd8ae88ccd72a5fa4be04b155cc.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.

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