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See also:RAFFET, See also:DENIS AUGUSTE See also:MARIE (1804-1860) , See also:French illustrator and lithographer, was See also:born in See also:Paris in 1804. At an See also:early See also:age he was apprenticed to a See also:wood See also:turner, but took up the study of See also:art at evening classes. He became acquainted with See also:Cabanel, who made him apply his skill to the decoration of See also:china, and with Rudor, from whom he received instruction in See also:lithography, in the practice of. which he was to rise to fame. He then entered the Ecole See also:des See also:Beaux-Arts, but returned definitely to lithography in 183o, when he produced on See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone his famous designs of " See also:Lutzen," See also:Waterloo," " Le bal," " La revue " and See also:Les adieux de la garnison," by which his reputation became immediately established. Raffet 's See also:chief See also:works were his lithographs of the See also:Napoleonic See also:campaigns, from See also:Egypt to Waterloo, vigorous designs that are inspired by ardent patriotic See also:enthusiasm. As an illustrator his activity was prodigious, the See also:list of works illustrated by his See also:crayon amounting to about See also:forty-five, among which are See also:Beranger's poems, the See also:History of the Revolution by See also:Thiers,. the History of See also:Napoleon by de Norvins, the See also:great See also:Walter See also:Scott by Defauconpret, the French See also:Plutarch and See also:Frederic See also:Berat's Songs. He went to See also:Rome in 1849, was See also:present at the See also:siege of Rome, which he made the subject of some lithographs, and followed the See also:Italian See also:campaign of 1859, of which he See also:left a See also:record in his Episodes de la campagne d'Italie de 1859. His portraits in See also:pencil and See also:water-See also:colour are full of See also:character. He died at See also:Genoa in 186o. In 1893 a See also:monument by See also:Fremiet was unveiled in the Jardin de 1'See also:Infante at the Louvre, Paris.
See Raffet, by F. Lhomme (Paris, 1892).
End of Article: RAFFET, DENIS AUGUSTE MARIE (1804-1860)
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