Morale is Affected by the Austrians!
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 18.2 × 19.6 cm (7 3/16 × 7 3/4 in.); Sheet: 39.7 × 28.3 cm (15 11/16 × 11 3/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48463
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...