Je n'tire pas! Si la cause était bonne, y n'faudrait pas d'argent pour la défendre. 28 Juillet 1830
Medium
Lithograph on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image, to first border: 15.1 × 22.8 cm (6 × 9 in.); Sheet: 27.8 × 37 cm (11 × 14 5/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48401
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...