Artist
Théodore Chassériau
French, 1819–1856
Théodore Chassériau was a French Romanticism painter. 25 works are cataloged here, principally at National Gallery of Art, most of them oil paintings. Théodore Chassériau was born in El Limón.
Théodore Chassériau (French pronunciation:; Spanish: Teodoro Chasseriau; September 20, 1819 – October 8, 1856) was a Dominican-born French Romantic painter noted for his portraits, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, and Orientalist images inspired by his travels to Algeria. Early in his career he painted in a Neoclassical style close to that of his teacher Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, but in his later works he was strongly influenced by the Romantic style of Eugène Delacroix. He was a prolific draftsman, and made a suite of prints to illustrate Shakespeare's Othello.
The portrait he painted at the age of 15 of Prosper Marilhat makes Chassériau the youngest painter exhibited at the Louvre museum.
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