Trench guard, from Souvenirs d’Italie: Expédition de Rome
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 21.2 × 32.2 cm (8 3/8 × 12 11/16 in.); Primary support: 29.3 × 37.7 cm (11 9/16 × 14 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 40 × 56.7 cm (15 3/4 × 22 3/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
132910
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...