Jewish Woman of Algiers Seated on the Ground
Théodore Chassériau
ca. 1846
Medium
Watercolor over graphite on wove paper (trimmed and laid down on blue wove paper)
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 3/4 x 9 1/8 in. (29.8 x 23.2cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1964
Accession Number
64.188
Tags
Women
About the Artist
Théodore Chassériau · 1819–1856
Théodore Chassériau was born on September 20, 1819, in El Limón, Samaná, in the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo — present-day Dominican Republic — to a French father and a Creole mother. The family relocated to Paris in 1820, and the young Chassériau's exceptional talent was evident almost immediately. At just eleven years old, in 1830, he was accepted into the prestigious studio of Jean-Auguste-D...