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[[Image:Auguste Bry - Portrait of Raffet.jpg|thumb|250px|Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, portrait by [[Auguste Bry]]]]
[[Image:Louvre-peinture-francaise-Ney-a-Kowno-p1020309.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Marshal Ney]] at the [[Kowno]] redoubt by Raffet]]
[[File:Raffet - Sape Volante.jpg|thumb|250px|''Sape Volante'', 1853, [[Dallas Museum of Art]]]]
[[File:Auguste Raffet Parquet Royal Lithography 1831.jpg|thumb|250px|''Crown Prosecution'', 1831, [[lithograph]], [[watercolor]]]]

'''Denis Auguste Marie Raffet''' (2 March 1804{{snd}}16 February 1860) was a French illustrator and [[lithograph]]er. He was a student of [[Nicolas Toussaint Charlet]], and was a retrospective painter of the [[First French Empire|Empire]].

==Biography==

Raffet was born in Paris.

At an early age he was apprenticed to a wood turner, 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 [[porcelain|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 des Beaux-Arts]], but returned to lithography in 1830 when he produced on stone his famous designs of [[Battle of Lützen (1813)|Lützen]], Waterloo, ''Le bal'', ''La revue'', and ''Les adieux de la garrison'', by which his reputation became immediately established.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Raffet, Denis Auguste Marie|volume=22|page=813}} Endnotes:
* ''Raffet'', by F. Lhomme (Paris, 1892).
* [[Henri Béraldi|Béraldi, Henri]] (1892). ''Raffet, peintre national''. Paris: Librairie illustrée.
* Dayot, Armand (1891). ''Raffet et son œuvre...100 compositions lithographiques: peintures à l'huile, aquarelles, sépias et dessins inédits''. [Paris] Quantin: Librairies-imprimeries réunies.
* Ladoué, Pierre (1946). ''Un peintre de l'épopée française: Raffet''. Paris: A. Michel.</ref>

Raffet's chief works were his lithographs of the Napoleonic campaigns, from Egypt to [[Battle of Waterloo|Waterloo]], vigorous designs inspired by ardent patriotic enthusiasm. In this endeavour he was a contemporary of other French artist-lithographers of Napoleon and the French army including [[Hippolyte Bellangé]], [[Horace Vernet]], and Nicolas Toussaint Charlet. As an illustrator his activity was prodigious, the list of works illustrated by his crayon amounting to about forty-five, among which are [[Pierre-Jean de Béranger|Béranger]]'s poems, the ''History of the Revolution'' by [[Adolphe Thiers]], the ''History of Napoleon'' by [[de Norvins]], the great ''[[Walter Scott]]'' by [[Auguste Defauconpret]], the French [[Plutarch]] and [[Frédéric Bérat]]'s ''Songs''.<ref name="EB1911"/>

He went to Rome in 1849, 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 de 1859''. His portraits in pencil and water-colour 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.<ref name="EB1911"/> The statue was removed and melted down during the nazi occupation of Paris.{{sfn | MessyNessy | 2016}}

== Works ==
* [[Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato|Anatolīĭ Demidov (principe di San Donato)]], [[André Durand]], Denis Auguste Marie Raffet: ''Voyage pittoresque et archéologique en Russie par le Hâvre, Hambourg, Lubeck, Saint-Petersbourg, Moscou, Nijni-Novgorod, Yaroslaw et Kasan, exécutée en 1839 sous la direction de M. Anatole de Démidoff.'' Paris, Gihaut frères, [1840–1848]{{sfn | Christie's | 2011}}
* Marquet de Montbreton de Norvins, Jacques, Baron – Histoire de Napoleon. – Paris, 1827–28 – 4 vols. Illustrated by Raffet and Vernet.

==Notes==
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==References==
*{{cite web | author=Christie's | title=-DEMIDOFF, Anatole (1813–1870). Excursion pittoresque et archéologique en Russie par le Hâvre, Hambourg, Lubeck, Saint-Petersbourg, Moscou, Nijni-Novgorod, Yaroslaw et Kasan, exécutée en 1839. Paris: Gihaut frères, &#91;1840–1848&#93;. | website=Christie's | date=11 May 2011 | url=http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/books-manuscripts/demidoff-anatole-excursion-pittoresque-et-archeologique-5433680-details.aspx?intObjectID=5433680&lid=1 | access-date= 1 February 2016}}
* {{cite web | author=MessyNessy | title=Where the Statues of Paris were sent to Die | website=Messy Nessy Chic | date=7 January 2016 | url=http://www.messynessychic.com/2016/01/07/where-the-statues-of-paris-were-sent-to-die/ | access-date=3 February 2016}}{{Unreliable source?|date=February 2016}}

==External links==
*[https://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/collections/askb/ Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library] numerous lithographs and some original drawings by Raffet.
*[http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/joconde_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_98=APTN&VALUE_98=Raffet&DOM=All&REL_SPECIFIC=1 Raffet at La Joconde] Collection of Raffet's works in French museums (text in French).
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