Capture of the Villa Pamfili, from Souvenirs d’Italie: Expédition de Rome
Medium
Lithograph in black over a fawn tint on buff wove chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image, incl. tint: 23 × 39.3 cm (9 1/16 × 15 1/2 in.); Primary support: 23.3 × 39.6 cm (9 3/16 × 15 5/8 in.); Secondary support: 40.1 × 56.9 cm (15 13/16 × 22 7/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
132906
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...