The Guide
1836–37
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory chine laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 13.5 × 20.4 cm (5 3/8 × 8 1/16 in.); Primary support: 13.5 × 20.4 cm (5 3/8 × 8 1/16 in.); Secondary support: 32 × 45.8 cm (12 5/8 × 18 1/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48514
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...