Battery no.9, from Souvenirs d’Italie: Expédition de Rome
Medium
Lithograph in black on warm ivory wove chine laid down on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 23.6 × 39.7 cm (9 5/16 × 15 11/16 in.); Primary support: 23.7 × 39.8 cm (9 3/8 × 15 11/16 in.); Secondary support: 39.9 × 57 cm (15 3/4 × 22 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
132943
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...