Artillery men, from Souvenirs d’Italie: Expédition de Rome
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 23.2 × 19.2 cm (9 3/16 × 7 9/16 in.); Primary support: 35.5 × 25.4 cm (14 × 10 in.); Secondary support: 57 × 40.2 cm (22 1/2 × 15 7/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
132912
About the Artist
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet · 1804–1860
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (1804–1860) was born in Paris and displayed an early aptitude for drawing, though his initial apprenticeship was to a wood turner. He pursued art through evening classes and, at age eighteen, joined the workshop of Cabanel as a porcelain painter, where he met Rudor, who taught him lithography. Raffet studied under Nicolas Toussaint Charlet from 1824 to 1829 and completed...