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Denis Auguste Marie Raffet
1825–26
Medium
Lithograph in black on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 20.7 × 18.8 cm (8 3/16 × 7 7/16 in.); Sheet: 36.2 × 27.3 cm (14 5/16 × 10 3/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48316
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...