Place du Pantheon, Night of December 22 to 23, 1830
Medium
Lithograph in black on gray wove chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 17.5 × 28.7 cm (6 15/16 × 11 5/16 in.); Primary support: 22.1 × 31.1 cm (8 3/4 × 12 1/4 in.); Secondary support: 27.7 × 39 cm (10 15/16 × 15 3/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
9521
Rights
Public Domain
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...