Theodore Chassériau

Theodore Chassériau (September 20th 1819 - October 8th 1856) is a painter French born with (Saint Bores of Samana) Saint-Domingue died in Paris.

He studies with the workshop of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, but will be later strongly influenced by Paul Delaroche and Delacroix.

Very early, about the middle of the years 1830, Théophile Gautier is interested in art of Chassériau. It lends " then to him; lives imaginaires" or speaks about " grace étrange" to try to give an account of the particular universe of the painter. Indeed, Chassériau does not cease being played of atmospheres disturbs, strange, ambiguity and mysterious.

Theodore Chassériau was at his time famous for his historical portraits and his scenes, of which its Tepidarium with Pompéi (1853) exposed to the Musée of Orsay.

Brother: Frederic-Victor-Charles Chassériau, administrator in Saint-Domingue .

First cousin: Baron Charles Frederic Chassériau, architect as a chief of the town of Algiers .

Principal works

  • 1835 : Aline Chassériau (Louvre)

  • 1836: Ernest Chassériau (Louvre)
  • 1836: cursed Caïn
  • 1836: Return of the prodigal son
  • 1837: Ruth and Booz
  • 1838: marine Venus known as Venus Anadyomène (Louvre)
  • 1839: Suzanne with the bath (Louvre)
  • 1839: Isaure Chassériau
  • 1840 : Andromède and Néréides (Louvre)
  • 1840: Henri Lacordaire (cloister of Holy-Sabine to Rome) (Louvre)
  • 1840: Young priest , (Institute Strait off Arts)
  • 1840: Christ with the garden of the olive-trees (Decoration of the church of Midsummer's Day d' Angély)
  • 1840: Diane surprised by Actéon , 55 X 74 cm
  • 1841: Esther being avoided to be presented to Assuérus says the toilet of Esther (Louvre)
  • 1841: Portrait of the Countess of Marie d' Agoult (drawing & Painting)
  • 1841: Charlotte de Pange (1616-1850) (Metropolitan Museum off Art New York)
  • 1842: Three scenes of the life of Holy Marie the Egyptian woman (Louvre)
  • 1842: the bather (seen back) (Art gallery of Munich)
  • 1842: Admiral Baron Victor Duperré (drawing), (Institute Strait off Arts)
  • 1842: Trojan Prisoners
  • 1843: the two sisters (Aline & Adele sisters of Theodore) (Louvre)
  • 1843: Marie the Egyptian woman , decorative fresco of the church Saint-Merri in Paris
  • 1844: Apollo and Daphné (Louvre)
  • 1844: Christ with the Garden
  • 1844-1848: Peace , decoration of the staircase of the Court of Auditors
  • 1845: Ali-Ben-Hamed, caliph de Constantine (Versailles)
  • 1845: Cléopâtre giving itself Death
  • 1846: Baroness Charles Frederic Chassériau (drawing), (Art Institute off Chicago)
  • 1848: the Actress Alice Ozy (drawing), (Institute Strait off Arts)
  • 1848: Miss Cabarrus (Quimper)
  • 1849: To lay down It of Desdémone (Louvre)
  • 1849: Héro and Léandre, known as the Poet and the Siren (Louvre)
  • 1850: Bather deadened close to a source
  • 1850: Woman Moors
  • 1850: Riding Arabic
  • 1850: the Temptation of Saint Antoine
  • 1850: Young Moorish Woman Nursing her Child
  • 1850: baptism of eunuque the
  • 1851: Woman and young girl of Constantine with a gazelle
  • 1852: Arab Chiefs of tribes defying itself in singular combat, under the ramparts of a city (Museum of Orsay)
  • 1852: Riding Arabic carrying their deaths, after a defeat against of Spahis (Louvre)
  • 1852: Christ at Marthe and Marie
  • 1853: Decoration of the church of Saint-Roch to Paris
  • 1853: Tepidarium de Pompei (Louvre)
  • 1853: the Defense of Gaules
  • 1854: Macbeth seeing the spectrum of Bank value
  • 1855: Macbeth followed by Bank value meets the Three Witches on the Moor
  • 1855: Decoration of the church of Saint-Philippe-of-Rolls to Paris
  • 1855: Jewish of Constantine
  • 1856: Interior of Harem
  • 1856: Othello and Desdémone (one of the scenes of Othello)
  • 1856: Desdémone (one of the scenes of Othello)
  • Petra Camera , 32,2 X 23,4 cm, museum of the Art schools of Budapest.
  • Prosper Marilhat (1811-1847)
  • the Princess of Belgioioso (drawing & Painting)
  • the Princess Cantacuzène (drawing & Painting)
  • Romeo and Juliette (Louvre)
  • Halt of Spahis near a Source (Louvre)
  • the Good Samaritan (Louvre)
  • Deposition
  • Holy François Xavier baptizing the Indians and the Japanese
  • Sapho precipitating Rock of Leucate
  • the Woman of Mola di Gaète kissing his/her child (Louvre)

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