Sheet with Stumped Sketch
Medium
Lithograph in black on gray chine laid down on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 15 × 23.5 cm (5 15/16 × 9 5/16 in.); Primary support: 17 × 23.8 cm (6 3/4 × 9 3/8 in.); Secondary support: 34.5 × 45.3 cm (13 5/8 × 17 7/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
9518
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...