Théodore Chassériau

1819 – 1856

French painter and printmaker. In 1822 Chassériau moved with his family to Paris, where he received a bourgeois upbringing under the supervision of an older brother. A precociously gifted draughtsman, he entered Ingres 's studio at the age of 11 and remained there until Ingres left to head the Académie de France in Rome in 1834.

11 artworks in collection