Attention! The Emperor has his eye on you
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 17 × 31.2 cm (6 3/4 × 12 5/16 in.); Sheet: 26.9 × 38 cm (10 5/8 × 15 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48444
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...