Sheet with Sketch (Grenadier of the Guard, Napoleon in a Bivouac)
Medium
Lithograph with lithotint in black on gray wove chine laid down on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 15.5 × 22.2 cm (6 1/8 × 8 3/4 in.); Primary support: 16.5 × 22.5 cm (6 1/2 × 8 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 34.4 × 45.3 cm (13 9/16 × 17 7/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
96302
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...