Portrait of the Baroness Chassériau

Prints and Drawings

1846

Théodore Chassériau
French, 1819-1856

The refinement and sensitivity of Chassériau’s pencil portraits demonstrate clearly that he was the pupil of Ingres, the great master of this genre. Chassériau delighted in drawing the members of his family, and made this portrait of his cousin by marriage when he visited her home in Marseilles upon his return from Algiers in 1846.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Théodore Chassériau
Title: Portrait of the Baroness Chassériau
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1846
Medium: Graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 31.4 × 23.5 cm (12 3/8 × 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: David Adler Collection
Reference Number: 1950.1409
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Valbert Chevillard, Théodore Chassériau (Paris, 1893), p. 302, no. 269.
Valbert Chevillard, Un Peintre romantique: Théodore Chassériau (Paris, 1893), p. 302, no. 269.
Léonce Bénédite, Théodore Chassériau, sa vie et son oeuvre 1 (Paris, 1931), pp. 82 and 84 (ill.).
Herold Joachim, “Trois siècles de portraits dessinés à l’Art Institute de Chicago,” L’Oeil, 255 (October 1976), p. 6, no. 1 (ill.).
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 1 (Chicago, 1978), no. 2B5.
Marc Sandoz, Cahiers Théodore Chassériau II (Paris, 1986), pp. 38-39, no. 25 (ill.).
“Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 26:1 (2000), p. 74, fig. 25.

Paris, Galerie Dru, “Chasseriau,” June 14-July 9, 1927, p. 12, cat. 34.
Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, “De Clouet å Matisse,” 1958-1959, n.p., cat. 96, pl. 122; traveled to the New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” October 17-November 30, 1963, cat. 93, pl. XXX.
Paris, Musée du Louvre, “Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso,” October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 47 (ill.).
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, “Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago,” February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 92-93, cat. 43 (ill.).
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Théodore Chassériau (1819-1956): The Unknown Romantic,” October 22, 2002-January 5, 2003, cat. 158 (ill.), cat. by Stéphane Guégan, Vincent Pomarède, and Louis-Antoine Prat, et. al..

The artist to Baron Frédéric Chassériau (1802-1896)[Chevillard 1893]; by descent to his daughter, Mme. Jean-Baptiste Nouvion (née Claire Chassériau; died 1936) [Bénédite, 1931]; by descent to her son, General Frédéric Nouvion; by descent to Charles Nouvion [all provenance information according to a letter from Jean-Baptiste Nouvion, president of the Association Théodore Chassériau, dated January 13, 2001 in curatorial file]; sold by Charles Nouvion [according to Jean-Baptiste Nouvion]. Sold by Dr. Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, to the Art Institute, 1950.

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