The Dessert: My eldest is full of spirit!...he is very advanced for his age...I intend to make a lawyer of him.
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 13.9 × 18.9 cm (5 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.); Sheet: 28.3 × 39.7 cm (11 3/16 × 15 11/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48502
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...