Of what do you have to complain?
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 16.7 × 23.7 cm (6 5/8 × 9 3/8 in.); Sheet: 28.2 × 39.7 cm (11 1/8 × 15 11/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48495
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...