Russian Prisoners of Bomarsud
Medium
Lithograph in black on gray chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 25.1 × 23.1 cm (9 15/16 × 9 1/8 in.); Primary support: 30.9 × 24 cm (12 3/16 × 9 1/2 in.); Secondary support: 45.7 × 34.7 cm (18 × 13 11/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48353
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...