Auguste Raffet

Le Capitaine De Genie - Lithograph by Auguste Raffet - 1837

1837

Trait of Humanity of Capitaine Peyronny is a Lithograph realized by Auguste Raffet in 1837. Signed in the plate. Good condition with foxing.

Nicolas Toussaint Charlet (1792-1845). Good condition on a brown paper, included a cream colored cardboard passpartout (31.5x45 cm) with some spots on the margins. No signature. Nicolas Toussaint Charlet (20 December 1792 – 30 October 1845) was a French painter and printmaker, more especially of military subjects. It was only towards 1822, however, that he began to be successful in a professional sense. Lithographs (about 2000 altogether), watercolours, sepia drawings, numerous oil sketches, and a few etchings followed one another rapidly. Later in his life there were also three exhibited oil pictures...

The French attack is an artwork realized by Auguste Raffet (1804-1860) in the 1860s. Belongs to the series "Souvenir d'Italie - Expédition de Rome". Lithograph, signed and dated by...

Lithograph realized by Auguste Raffet in 1860. Belongs to the series "Souvenir d'Italie - Expédition de Rome". Good condition,

The circa 1840 engraving titled "Rue de Rohan - Trois Glorieuses", engraved by Jean-Pierre-Marie Jazet after a painting by H. Lecomte, captures a pivotal moment during the July Revol...

The circa 1840 engraving "Défense de la Porte St-Denis - Trois Glorieuses", engraved by Jean-Pierre-Marie Jazet after a painting by H. Lecomte, vividly captures a defining moment fro...

"VALMY! (L'Estampe Moderne)" is a print watermarked PL BAS after a drawing by Adolphe Willette. It depicts a general with his army and a young girl. 15 3/4" x 12" art 23" x 19 1/4" frame Adolphe Léon Willette (30 July 1857 – 4 February 1926) was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer, as well as an architect of the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret. Willette ran as an "anti-semitic" candidate in the 9th arrondisement of Paris for the September 1889 legislative elections. Biography Willette was born in Châlons-sur-Marne. He studied for four years at the École des Beaux-Arts under Cabanel, training which gave him a unique position among the graphic humorists of France. Whether comedy or tragedy, dainty triviality or political satire, his work is instinct with the profound sincerity of the artist. He set Pierrot upon a lofty pedestal among the imaginary heroes of France, and established Mimi Pinson, frail, lovable, and essentially good-hearted, in the affections of the nation. Willette is at once the modern Watteau of the pencil, and the exponent of sentiments that move the more emotional section of the public. Always a poet, and usually gay, fresh, and delicate, in his presentation of idylls exquisitely dainty and characteristically Gallic, illustrating the more "charming" side of love, often pure and sometimes extremely materialistic. Willette frequently reveals himself bitter and fierce, even ferocious, in his hatreds, being a violent though at the same time a generous partisan of political ideas, furiously compassionate with love and pity for the people whether they be ground down under the heel of political oppression, or are merely the victims ot unrequited love, suffering all the pangs of graceful anguish that are born of scornful treatment. There is charm even in his thrilling apotheosis of the guillotine, and in the introduction into his caricatures of the figure of Death itself. The artist was a prolific contributor to the French illustrated press under the pseudonyms "Cemoi", "Pierrot", "Louison", "Bebe", and "Nox", but more often under his own name. He illustrated Melandri's Les Pierrots and Les Giboulles d'avril, Le Courrier français, and published his own Pauvre Pierrot and other works, in which he tells his stories in scenes in the manner of Busch. He decorated several "brasseries artistiques" with wall-paintings, stained glass, &c., notably Le Chat noir and La Palette d'or, and he painted the highly imaginative ceiling for La Cigale...

Sapeurs- Pompiers De Paris, Officier et Soldat ( Grandes Tenures).... Fire Brigade In Paris, Officer and Soldier (Large Tenure ) shows two mustachioed French soldiers from the A...