I Will Save Him or Perish
Medium
Lithograph in black on off-white wove paper laid down on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image, with first border: 17.5 × 19.6 cm (6 15/16 × 7 3/4 in.); Primary support: 17.9 × 20.2 cm (7 1/16 × 8 in.); Secondary support: 33.8 × 40 cm (13 5/16 × 15 3/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48311
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...