Théodore Chassériau, (French, 1819-1856)
Deux femmes demi-nues, de dos (esquisse)/ Two half-naked women, back (sketch), c. 1848
Oil on canvas
15 7/8 x 12 ¾ in. (40.3 x 32.4 cm.)
Private collection
Théodore Chassériau (September 20, 1819 – October 8,
1856) was a French Romantic painter noted for his portraits,
historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, and Orientalist images
inspired by his travels to Algeria.
Chassériau
was born in El Limón, Samaná, in the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo (now the
Dominican Republic). In December 1820 the family left Santo Domingo for Paris,
where the young Chassériau soon showed precocious drawing skills. He was
accepted into the studio of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres in 1830, at the age
of eleven, and became the favorite pupil of the great classicist, who regarded
him as his truest disciple.
After
Ingres left Paris in 1834 to become director of the French Academy in Rome,
Chassériau fell under the influence of Eugène Delacroix, whose brand of
painterly colorism was anathema to Ingres. Chassériau's art has often been
characterized as an attempt to reconcile the classicism of Ingres with the
romanticism of Delacroix. He first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1836, and
was awarded a third-place medal in the category of history painting. In 1840
Chassériau travelled to Rome and met with Ingres, whose bitterness at the
direction his student's work was taking led to a decisive break.
In 1846
Chassériau made his first trip to Algeria. From sketches made on this and
subsequent trips he painted such subjects as Arab Chiefs Visiting Their Vassals
and Jewish Women on a Balcony...
After a period of ill health, exacerbated by his exhausting
work on commissions for murals to decorate the Churches of Saint-Roch and
Saint-Philippe-du-Roule, Chassériau died at the age of 37 in Paris, on October
8, 1856. More on
Théodore Chassériau
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