Non-Commissioned Officer and Soldiers of the Volhynie Regiment (Imperial Guard), Camp Vosnessensk
1842–44
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 31.8 × 23.4 cm (12 9/16 × 9 1/4 in.); Primary support: 31.9 × 23.6 cm (12 9/16 × 9 5/16 in.); Secondary support: 45.4 × 35.5 cm (17 7/8 × 14 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48631
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...