Théodore Chassériau worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Théodore Chassériau as French romantic painter (1819–1856).
Théodore Chassériau was born at El Limón in 1819. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter.
His recorded movement is romanticism and orientalism.
Among his best-known works are Venus of the sea, The Toilette of Esther and Aline Chassériau. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
Recognition followed: Knight of the Legion of Honour (1849).
That the work was made in France shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Théodore Chassériau died in 1856, aged 37. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Knight of the Legion of Honour — 1849
- Notable work: Venus of the sea
- Notable work: The Toilette of Esther
- Notable work: Aline Chassériau
- Movement: Romanticism and Orientalism
