Sappers going to the trenches, from Souvenirs d’Italie: Expédition de Rome
Medium
Lithograph in black on gray wove chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 15.1 × 32.9 cm (6 × 13 in.); Primary support: 23.5 × 38 cm (9 5/16 × 15 in.); Secondary support: 40 × 57 cm (15 3/4 × 22 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
132909
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...