Théodore Chassériau

Works by this Artist

Tepidarium
Théodore Chassériau, 1853

Background

bourgeois

Studies

with Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1830-34)

Career

1836 – Salon debut; receives third-class medal for Cain Accursed (private collection)

1844 – receives commission for allegorical series War and Peace (1844-48, Louvre, Paris) for the Cour des Comptes in the Palais d’Orsay (Paris)

Travels

Rome (1840-41); Algeria (1846)

Commissions from

French government

Readings:

Chassériau, Théodore. 1819-1856: the Unknown Romantic. Exhibition catalogue. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002