Denis Auguste Marie Raffet 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 woodturner 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 Nationale Supérieure 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 Joseph Louis Hippolyte Bellangé, Émile Jean-Horace Vernet and Nicolas Toussaint Charlet. As an illustrator, his activity was prodigious. The list of works illustrated by his crayon amounting to about 45, among which are Béranger's poems, The History of the French Revolution by Louis Adolphe Thiers, the Histoire de Napoléon by Jacques Marquet De Norvins, the novel of Walter Scott by Auguste Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret, Plutarch’s work in French 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 in1859. His portraits in pencil and watercolor are full of character. He died at Genoa in 1860. In 1893, a monument by Emmanuel Frémiet was unveiled in the Jardin de l'Infante at the Louvre, Paris. The statue was removed and melted down during the Nazi occupation of Paris.
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Prise de la Ville Pamfili - Etching by Auguste Marie Raffet - 1852
By Denis Auguste Marie Raffet
Located in Roma, IT
Prise de la Ville Pamfili is an artwork realized by Auguste Marie Raffet in the 1852. Etching on paper. Signed on plate on the left margin. Belongs to the series "Souvenir d'Italie...
Etching
Battle Scene - Original Lithograph by Auguste Raffet - 1859
By Denis Auguste Marie Raffet
Located in Roma, IT
Battle Scene of "Chemin De Ronde" is an original lithography artwork realized by Raffet in 1859. Signed on the plate on the lower left, dated, titled on the lower center with descr...
Lithograph
The Grand Canal, Venice
By Elias S. Mandel Grossman
Located in Middletown, NY
1926. Etching in sepia ink on Japon paper, 9 5/8 x 11 1/2 inches (245 x 292 mm), full margins with the lower margin slightly notched. Signed, titled and dated in pencil in the lower ...
Handmade Paper, Etching
Coenties Slip
By Charles Frederick William Mielatz
Located in Middletown, NY
Lower Manhattan and the Seaport as the artist imagined it would have appeared before 1835. New York: 1907. Etching with drypoint on Japon paper, 13 7/8 x 9 3/4 inches (353 x 248 mm...
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
New York Skyline
By Louis H. Ruyl
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint on cream wove paper with deckle edges, 4 3/8 x 12 3/4 inches (233 x 323 mm); sheet 9 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches (240 x 338 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 4/75 ...
Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint
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H 15 in W 18 in
Jean-Edouard Vuillard, The Footbridge, 1966 (after)
By Edouard Vuillard
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir after Jean-Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940), titled La Passerelle (The Footbridge), from the folio Vuillard, Douze Pastels (Vuillard, Twelve Pastels...
Lithograph, Stencil
$400
H 8.67 in W 11.97 in
A view of the New York Public Library, looking uptown along 5th Avenue.
By Andrew Karoly
Located in Middletown, NY
New York: c 1920. Etching with aquatint printed in brownish black ink on cream wove paper, 8 3/4 x 12 inches (220 x 304 mm), full margins. Signed and titled in pencil in the lower ma...
Archival Paper, Etching, Aquatint
$300
H 14.06 in W 9.93 in
Morningside Park and St. Luke's Hospital
By Charles Frederick William Mielatz
Located in Middletown, NY
A bucolic late 19th century image of upper Manhattan. New York: 1898. Lithograph on tissue-thin Japon paper with a deckle edge, 14 1/8 x 10 inches (357 x 252 mm), the full sheet. Tit...
Lithograph, Handmade Paper
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H 15 in W 18 in
Jean-Edouard Vuillard, The Wave, 1966 (after)
By Edouard Vuillard
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir after Jean-Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940), titled La Vague (The Wave), from the folio Vuillard, Douze Pastels (Vuillard, Twelve Pastels), originat...
Lithograph, Stencil
Bourges – The Cathedral of St. Étienne
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on watermarked handmade F J Head & Co cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 14 1/8 x 9 1/8 inches (358 x 232 mm); sheet 18 1/8 x 11 inches (461 x 280 mm), full margins. Signed...
Handmade Paper, Etching
$956Sale Price|20% Off
H 18 in W 15 in
Jean-Edouard Vuillard, The Turret, 1966 (after)
By Edouard Vuillard
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir after Jean-Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940), titled La Tourelle (The Turret), from the folio Vuillard, Douze Pastels (Vuillard, Twelve Pastels), ori...
Lithograph, Stencil
Original Nantua son Lac vintage French travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original, smaller format size, NANTUA SON LAC. Archival linen-backed original lithograph, excellent condition, ready to ship or frame. Grade A. This poster promotes mini-golf, v...
Lithograph
Cathedral de Saint Julien le Mans
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 9 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (232 x 248 mm); sheet 12 1/8 x 12 3/4 inches (307 x 323 mm), full margins. Signed and dated in pencil in ...
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Cortland Street
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint on antique handmade laid Japon paper, 12 7/8 x 7 1/2 (327 x 191 mm); sheet 15 5/16 x 10 7/16 (389 x 265 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil in the lower margin....
Drypoint, Etching