Workers Crowning the Breach of Bastion 7, from Souvenirs d’Italie: Expédition de Rome
Medium
Lithograph in black on warm ivory wove chine laid down on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 21.7 × 35.6 cm (8 9/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Primary support: 30.4 × 41.5 cm (12 × 16 3/8 in.); Secondary support: 40.7 × 56.8 cm (16 1/16 × 22 3/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
132928
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...