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Auguste Raffet (1804-1860) "An episode of the retreat of Grande Armée from Russia", drawing 2500 EUR
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Auguste (Denis Auguste Marie) Raffet was born in 1804 in Paris, and died in 1860 in Genoa, Italy.
At an early age he was apprenticed to a wood turner, but took up the study of art at evening classes. He became acquainted with Alexandre Cabanel, who made him apply his skill to the decoration of china, and with 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 definitely 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 that are 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.
Rarely but also with great success, he worked as a painter in oils and watercolor (see our images nr.9-16).
Provenance: private collection, Lille / France
**Our images nr.8-13 show several works of this artist (among others, those offered at the international art auction market in the last years)
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Condition: good
Creation Year: 1st half of 19th Century
Measurements: UNFRAMED:19,6x27,0cm/7,7x10,6in FRAMED: 44,0x51,0cm/17,3x20,1in
Object Type: Framed drawing
Style: Military paintings
Technique: grey wash and white heightening on paper
Inscription: signed: "Raffet"
Creator: Auguste Raffet
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Creator Dates: 1804 Paris-1860 Genoa
Nationality: French
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