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Portrait of Madame Ravaisson

Théodore Chassériau

1846

Medium

Graphite on white wove paper darkened to buff

Tags

Portraits Women

Dimensions

13 1/8 x 10 in. (35.1 x 26.9 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

Classification

Drawings

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

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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