Sapping in full swing, from Souvenirs d’Italie: Expédition de Rome
Medium
Lithograph in black on warm ivory wove chine laid down on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 20.8 × 36.5 cm (8 1/4 × 14 3/8 in.); Primary support: 28.8 × 42.5 cm (11 3/8 × 16 3/4 in.); Secondary support: 40.2 × 57.1 cm (15 7/8 × 22 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
132921
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...