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Théodore Chassériau (1819–1856): The Unknown Romantic
October 22, 2002–January 5, 2003
Special Exhibition Galleries, 2nd floor
Approximately 50 paintings and 80 works on paper constitute the first retrospective of the work of Chassériau (1819–1856) since 1933 and the first to be held outside France. Chassériau, a precocious disciple of Ingres, quickly succumbed to Romanticism and developed a personal style that fused Ingres’s linear precision with the lush color and exoticism of Delacroix. Chassériau’s trip to Algeria in 1846 inspired a wealth of Orientalist images, which highlight a career abruptly terminated by the artist’s death at the age of 37. The diversity of his historical, religious, and Orientalist subjects as well as his portraits reveals how the government and the emerging art market in France formed his oeuvre.
The exhibition was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the the Réunion des Musées Nationaux in Paris, and the City of Strasbourg in Strasbourg.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
The exhibition is supported by The Isaacson-Draper Foundation.
The exhibition was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, the Louvre Museum, Paris, and the Museums of Strasbourg.
An indemnity has been granted by the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
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