His Majesty Nicolas I, Emperor of all Russia, Camp Vosnessensk, October 6, 1837
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet
1842–45
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 35.9 × 25.8 cm (14 3/16 × 10 3/16 in.); Sheet: 53.4 × 35.8 cm (21 1/16 × 14 1/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48629
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...