Sheet of Skteches
Medium
Etching on cream chine, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image, including stray marks: 5.5 × 13 cm (2 3/16 × 5 1/8 in.); Plate: 6.5 × 13.7 cm (2 9/16 × 5 7/16 in.); Primary support: 6.1 × 13.5 cm (2 7/16 × 5 3/8 in.); Secondary support: 13.3 × 22.1 cm (5 1/4 × 8 3/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48308
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...