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Sheet of Sketches
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (French, 1804-1860)LinkedCulture matchlcp-5290d677cf0a
- Date
- 1829
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 127430
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
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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- Credit line
- The Charles Deering Collection
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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