Sheet of Sketches
- 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.)
- Genre
- lithograph
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)lithograph
About
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.
