*Théodore Chassériau* (September 20<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_20>, 1819 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1819> – October 8<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_8>, 1856 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1856>) was a French<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France> romantic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism> painter<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painter>noted for his portraits <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait>, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, and Orientalist<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism>images inspired by his travels to Algeria <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria>.
Chassériau was born in Samaná <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saman%C3%A1>, in Saint Domingue <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Domingue> (now the Dominican Republic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic>). His father was a Frenchman who held an administrative position in what was then a French colony, and his mother was the daughter of a Creole<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_peoples>landowner. The family moved to Paris <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris> in 1821, where the young Chassériau soon showed precocious drawing skill. He was accepted into the studio of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Auguste-Dominique_Ingres>in 1830, at the age of eleven, becoming the favorite pupil of the great classicist <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classicism>. Ingres quickly came to regard him as his truest disciple, declaring: "Come, gentlemen, come see, this child will be the Napoleon of painting."[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_Chass%C3%A9riau#_note-0> After Ingres left Paris in 1834 to become director of the French Academy in Rome <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome>, Chassériau fell under the influence of Eugène Delacroix<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix>, whose brand of painterly colorism was anathema to Ingres. Chassériau's art has often been characterized as an attempt to reconcile the classicism of Ingres with the romanticism of Delacroix. He first exhibited at the Paris Salon <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Salon> in 1836, and was awarded a third-place medal in the the category of history painting.[2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_Chass%C3%A9riau#_note-1>In 1840 Chassériau travelled to Rome and met with Ingres, whose bitterness at the direction his student's work was taking led to a decisive break. http://www.equality.ws/view.php?img=18455_Susannaibadet.jpg.html http://www.equality.ws/view.php?img=18454_MacbethAndBanquoWitches.jpg.html http://www.equality.ws/view.php?img=18453_ChainedtotheRock.jpg.html http://www.equality.ws/view.php?img=18452_Banquo.jpg.html http://www.equality.ws/view.php?img=18451_A9riau001.jpg.html http://www.equality.ws/view.php?img=18450_9riau006.jpg.html http://www.equality.ws/view.php?img=18449_9riau005.jpg.html http://www.equality.ws/view.php?img=18448_9riau004.jpg.html http://www.equality.ws/view.php?img=18447_9riau003.jpg.html http://www.equality.ws/view.php?img=18446_9riau002.jpg.html
