Entering the Villa Santucci, 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: 27.3 × 21.1 cm (10 3/4 × 8 5/16 in.); Primary support: 30.2 × 23.9 cm (11 15/16 × 9 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 56.8 × 41.1 cm (22 3/8 × 16 3/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
132905
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...