Royal Navy, Line Crew, Ship's Ensign
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet
1830–33
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image, excluding stray marks: 19.1 × 14.2 cm (7 9/16 × 5 5/8 in.); Sheet: 25.5 × 17.9 cm (10 1/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48523
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...