1830
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Album of 1831: I want to kill one of Polignac's soldiers. They did not spare my child (Historic) is a 1830 by Auguste Raffet, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This sketch shows a chaotic street scene. Soldiers in uniforms stand around. One woman holds a child, looking angry. A man lies on the ground near a broken cart. Buildings loom in the background, but everything is dark and smudgy. The text at the bottom says something about killing soldiers. It’s from 1830, but the artist made it look raw and urgent. Want to know more? Check out Romanticism.
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (2 March 1804 – 16 February 1860) was a French illustrator and lithographer. He was a student of Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, and was a retrospective painter of the Empire.
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