The Nocturnal Review
Medium
Lithograph in black on gray chine laid down on gray wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 20.1 × 27.3 cm (7 15/16 × 10 3/4 in.); Primary support: 20.3 × 27.5 cm (8 × 10 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 35.1 × 43.8 cm (13 7/8 × 17 1/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48517
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...