The Nocturnal Review
1836, published 1837
Medium
Lithograph in black on gray wove chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 20 × 27.1 cm (7 7/8 × 10 11/16 in.); Primary support: 22.3 × 29.3 cm (8 13/16 × 11 9/16 in.); Secondary support: 34.7 × 44.9 cm (13 11/16 × 17 11/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
110720
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...