Ready to leave for the Eternal City, from Souvenirs d’Italie: Expédition de Rome
Medium
Lithograph in black on buff wove chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 25.9 × 19.3 cm (10 1/4 × 7 5/8 in.); Primary support: 26.6 × 19.3 cm (10 1/2 × 7 5/8 in.); Secondary support: 56.8 × 40 cm (22 3/8 × 15 3/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
132900
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...