Capture of the Molle Bridge
Medium
Lithograph in black on gray chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 16.2 × 35.3 cm (6 7/16 × 13 15/16 in.); Primary support: 24.4 × 40.6 cm (9 5/8 × 16 in.); Secondary support: 34.3 × 45.8 cm (13 9/16 × 18 1/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48527
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...