Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (French, 1804-1860)
printed by Chez Gihaut Frères (French, 19th century)
Sheet of Sketches
INV-1274
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (French, 1804-1860)
printed by Chez Gihaut Frères (French, 19th century)1829
Sheet of Sketches
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (French, 1804-1860) printed by Chez Gihaut Frères (French, 19th century) →lithographprint
Date
1829
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 24.1 × 29.7 cm (9 1/2 × 11 3/4 in.); Sheet: 26.3 × 34.9 cm (10 3/8 × 13 3/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The Charles Deering Collection
As a pioneer of battle vignettes, Denis-Auguste-Marie Raffet depicted many military scenes in sketchbooklike compositions. He began to publish lithographs in 1826, and Sheet of Sketches was one of his early works. This sheet has a seminostalgic, satirical tone, with details of a frantic crowd cheering for a duel between knights and a scene of ritualistic decapitation. Raffet’s lithographs inspired generations of artists and writers, including Honoré de Balzac.
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