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Ernest Chassériau (?)
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Ernest Chassériau (?)

Medium

Conté crayon, with touches of white chalk, on wove paper

Dimensions

Sheet: 9 3/8 x 7 3/4 in. (23.8 x 19.7 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2008

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Théodore Chassériau

1819–1856France

Born in the Dominican Republic. Painter of decorative schemes, portraits, nudes, and North African scenes. Perhaps most famous for the decoration of the Cour des Comptes in the Palais d'Orsay; he combined Ingres' classical linear grace with Delacroix's Romantic color. Comment on works: history