The Last Cart
Medium
Lithograph in black, with scraping on stone, on buff wove paper
Dimensions
Image, without borders: 18.8 × 24.9 cm (7 7/16 × 9 13/16 in.); Sheet: 23.3 × 30.4 cm (9 3/16 × 12 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48492
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...