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Theodore Chasseriau

Theodore Chasseriau (1819 - 1856) was active/lived in France.  Theodore Chasseriau is known for Portraits, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, Orientalist images.

Theodore 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.

Chassériau was born in El Limón, Samaná, in the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic). His father Benoît Chassériau was a French adventurer who had arrived in Santo Domingo in 1802 to take an administrative position in what was until 1808 a French colony Theodore's mother, Maria Magdalena Couret de la Blagniére, was the daughter of a mulatto landowner born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti). In D   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3985 characters.]  Artist bio

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