Denis Auguste Marie Raffet

The Artist - Lithograph by Denis Auguste Marie Raffet - 1836

1836

Jean Henry Lebeillé is an original Lithograph realized by Denis Auguste Marie Raffet in 1848. Hand-signed and dated with pencil by the artist on the lower ...

Portraits is an Original Etching realized by Auguste Raffet in 19th century. Signed on plate on the lower right. Good conditions on a cream colored cardboard. Denis Auguste Marie ...

Louis Rousseau is an original Litograph realized by Denis Auguste Marie Raffet in 1848. Signed and dated in plate on the lower right corner. Good condition included a cream colored...

The Military Portait - The Appearance of Our Lady - The Classroom is an original Lithograph realized by Denis Auguste Marie Raffet. Signed on the center and numbered (9). Edition b...

Title: French Directoire Costume Lithograph – Under the Directory, 1797 – Published 1847 Description: A beautifully hand-colored French lithograph depicting an elegantly dressed gen...

Portrait of Joseph Méry – French Poet and Publicist, 19th Century Lithograph This elegant mid-19th-century lithograph features the French poet, novelist, and publicist Joseph Méry (...

This 1846 original lithographic engraving after Théodore Du Moncel depicts the historic Greek town of Mégare (Megara), rendered as part of the celebrated publication Athènes monument...

Denis Auguste Raffet (1804-1860) Studies of characters Black pencil and watercolor on paper 18.5 x 25.5 cm Stamp of the Raffet Estate Sale (1911) on the lower right In good condition, foxings on the original mount Framed 34 x 40 cm Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (2 March 1804 – 16 February 1860) was a French illustrator and lithographer. He was a student of Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, and was a retrospective painter of the Empire. At an early age he was apprenticed to a wood turner, but took up the study of art at evening classes. At the age of 18 he entered the workshop of Cabanel, where he applied his skill to the decoration of china, and where he met Rudor, from whom he received instruction in lithography, in the practice of which he was to rise to fame. He then entered the École des Beaux-Arts, but returned to lithography in 1830 when he produced on stone his famous designs of Lützen, Waterloo, Le bal, La revue, and Les adieux de la garrison, by which his reputation became immediately established.[ Raffet's chief works were his lithographs of the Napoleonic campaigns, from Egypt to Waterloo, vigorous designs inspired by ardent patriotic enthusiasm. In this endeavor he was a contemporary of other French artist-lithographers of Napoleon and the French army including Hippolyte Bellangé, Horace Vernet, and Nicolas Toussaint Charlet. As an illustrator his activity was prodigious, the list of works illustrated by his crayon amounting to about forty-five, among which are Béranger's poems, the History of the Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, the History of Napoleon by de Norvins, the great Walter Scott by Auguste Defauconpret, the French Plutarch and Frédéric Bérat's Songs. He went to Rome in 1849, and was present at the siege of Rome, which he made the subject of some lithographs, and followed the Italian campaign of 1859, of which he left a record in his Episodes de la campagne d'Italie de 1859. His portraits in pencil...