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    Portrait of the Baroness Chassériau
    Théodore Chassériau. Portrait of the Baroness Chassériau, 1846. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00003206

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    Portrait of the Baroness Chassériau

    by Théodore Chassériau

    Provenance

    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.

    Exhibition history

    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..

    Publications

    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.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Théodore Chassériau / French, 1819-1856
    Date
    1846
    Medium
    Graphite on cream wove paper
    Dimensions
    31.4 × 23.5 cm (12 3/8 × 9 5/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    graphite
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    David Adler Collection
    Accession no.
    1950.1409

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