Napoleon in Egypt
Medium
Lithograph in black on yellow wove paper hinged on four sides to a cream board
Dimensions
Image: 28 × 22.5 cm (11 1/16 × 8 7/8 in.); Primary support: 29.1 × 22.7 cm (11 1/2 × 8 15/16 in.); Secondary support: 35.6 × 26.6 cm (14 1/16 × 10 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11217
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...