Theodore Chasseriau Prints Fine Art Posters

Sapho Giclee Print

Susanna and the Elders

The Defence of Gaul

St. Francis Xavier Giclee Print

An Angel, Study for the Mount of Olives

Group of Arabs, Joseph Sold by His Brothers

Bath in the Harem Giclee Print

Death of Sappho Giclee Print

Study of a Negro Giclee Print

Dance of the Handkerchiefs Giclee Print

Macbeth and the Three Witches

Desdemona Retiring to Her Bed, 1849 Giclee Print

St. Philip Baptising the Eunuch of the Queen of Ethiopia

Tepidarium Giclee Print

In 1846 Chasseriau made a trip to Algeria where he became interested in orientalism and his work began to consist of orientalist scenes though he was also well respected as a portraitist. Towards the end of his painting career Chasseriau concentrated on murals, the most notable being for the Court des Comptes of the Palais d'Orrsay which depicted allegorical scenes of war and peace. Theodore Chassériau died at the young age of thirty seven in Paris. Fellow artist Gustave Moreau produced studies for a painting he intended as a tribute to Chassériau titled The Young Man and Death.

Museums: Theodore Chasseriau may be found at Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and Musee d'Orsay, Paris.

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Chasseriau had been born in Samaná, of Saint Domingue which is today the Dominican Republic. His father had been a French explorer who, when Theodore's was born, had an administrative job for what had been at that time a French settlement; his mother had been a daughter of a Creole property owner. The family relocated to Paris during 1821, a place the adolescent Chassériau quickly demonstrated gifted drawing talent. He was admitted in the studio of renowned artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres in the year 1830 when Chasseriau was eleven years old, becoming the favored student of the distinguished classical painter who came to regard Theodore as the truest adherent to his teachings

Tepidarium Giclee Print

Ghost of Banquo Giclee Print

Charles-Alexis-Henri Clerel De Tocquevillet

The Toilet of Esther

Two Sisters, Mesdemoiselles Chasseriau Marie-Antoinette-Adele and Genevieve

Venus Anadyomene, Venus of the Sea

Othello and Desdemona in Venice

Sleeping Nymph Giclee Print

Toilet in the Seraglio Giclee Print

Ali Ben Ahmed, Last Caliph of Constantine, Entourage Outside Constantine

Apollo and Daphne Giclee Print

Andromeda Tied to the Rock by the Nereids

Jewish Women at Balcony Algiers Giclee Print

Macbeth Giclee Print

Following Ingres relocating to Paris in 1834 to take up the position of director at the French Academy in Rome, Chasseriau became influenced by the art of Eugene Delacroix, whose style of aesthetic coloring was contrary to the color use seen in Ingres paintings. Chasseriau's work has frequently been defined as an attempt to harmonize the classicism style of Ingres with the romanticism seen in Eugene Eugene Delacroix. He initially presented with the Paris Salon during 1836, and was presented with a 3rd place medal in the class of historical painting. During 1840 Chasseriau went to Rome where reconnected with Ingres, whose acerbity at the focus his former pupil's art had been leading contributed to a conclusive break between the two artists.

One of the principal paintings of his early maturity all depict a quite personal ideal in portraying the female nude. Chasseriau's outstanding religious art works of these years, Christ on the Mount of Olives as well as the painting The Descent from the Cross, earned mixed reviews by art critics. One of the painter's supporters had been Théophile Gautier. Chasseriau as well executed a commission for murals showing the lifetime of Saint Mary of Egypt for the Church of Saint-Merri located in Paris, they were finished during 1843.

All during his life Chasseriau had been a productive draftsman, his numerous portrait sketches carried out in fine point graphite pencil were near in style to those produced by Ingres. He likewise produced a collection of twenty-nine prints, which included a set of 18 etchings of themes inspired by Shakespeare's play Othello during 1844.

During 1846, not long following having painted the prodigious Ali-Ben-Hamet, Caliph of Constantine and Chief of the Haractas, Followed by his Escort, Chasseriau made his initial journey to Algeria. With sketches made on this as well as later trips he began to create his renowned orientalist themed paintings.

Following a time of ill health, aggravated by his consuming work with commissions for wall paintings to adorn the Churches of Saint-Roch as well as Saint-Philippe-du-Roule, Chassériau passed away at the young age of thirty-seven. He died in Paris, on October 8, 1856.

- A Bath in the Harem 1849
- Ali-Ben-Hamet, Caliph of Constantine of the Haractas, followed by his Escort 1845
- Andromeda Chained to the Rock by the Nereids 1840
- Apollo and Daphne 1845
- Arabs after Battle with Spahis
- Battle of Arab Horsemen Around a Standard, 1854
- Bazaar in Orleans
- Esther Preparing Herself to Meet King Assuerus
- Harem
- Interior of an Arab School in Constantine, 1846
- Orientalist Interior 1850 - 1852
- Peace
- Poete Arabe 1850
- Portrait of Alexis de Toqueville 1850
- Portrait of Ernest Chasseriau, The Painter's Brother in the Uniform of the Ecole Navale in Brest 1835
- Portrait of Raymond de Magnoncourt, 1851
- Portrait of the Reverend Father Dominique Lacordaire, of the Order of the Predicant Friars 1840
- The Angel c.1840
- The Tepidarium 1853
- The Toilet of Esther 1841
- The Two Sisters 1843
- Three Scenes in the Life of St. Mary the Egyptian, 1842
- Young Teleb Seated