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Portrait of Jennins

Théodore Chassériau

1838

Medium

Graphite and touches of black chalk on beige laid paper

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Dimensions

Sheet: 12 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. (31.8 x 23.5cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1946

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Théodore Chassériau

1819–1856 • France

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

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