The Slide
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet
1827–28
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 17.3 × 22.1 cm (6 13/16 × 8 3/4 in.); Sheet: 27.3 × 35.9 cm (10 3/4 × 14 3/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48381
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...