Null Théodore CHASSERIAU (1819-1856) Head of a woman in three-quarter view Graph…

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Théodore CHASSERIAU (1819-1856) Head of a woman in three-quarter view Graphite and white chalk 43 x 29 cm Study for the head of a Saint in the Descent from the Cross of St Philippe du Roule (1855) Provenance: Stamp of the Chassériau sale in the lower left corner (Lugt n°443). Collection of Baron Arthur Chassériau. Private collection, Paris Bibliography: Léonce Bénédite, Théodore Chassériau, sa vie et son œuvre, Paris, reproduced p.449 Marc Sandoz, Portraits et visages dessinés par T.Chassériau, Editart - Les Quatre Chemins, Paris, 1986, vol II, n°187, ill p.184 Expert: Cabinet de Bayser

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Théodore CHASSERIAU (1819-1856) Head of a woman in three-quarter view Graphite and white chalk 43 x 29 cm Study for the head of a Saint in the Descent from the Cross of St Philippe du Roule (1855) Provenance: Stamp of the Chassériau sale in the lower left corner (Lugt n°443). Collection of Baron Arthur Chassériau. Private collection, Paris Bibliography: Léonce Bénédite, Théodore Chassériau, sa vie et son œuvre, Paris, reproduced p.449 Marc Sandoz, Portraits et visages dessinés par T.Chassériau, Editart - Les Quatre Chemins, Paris, 1986, vol II, n°187, ill p.184 Expert: Cabinet de Bayser

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THÉODORE CHASSERIAU (El Limón -Saint-Domingue 1819-Paris, 1856) PORTRAIT OF VICTOR PIERRUGUES Original canvas and frame Signed and dated lower right "T. Chassériau / 1836" Original canvas and frame, signed and dated lower right 81 x 57 CM - 31,9 x 22,4 IN. Provenance Model's family by descent until today. This previously unpublished canvas is one of a series of early works by Chassériau, produced during his stay in Marseille in the summer of 1836. At the age of seventeen, he was invited to the city by his cousin Charles-Frédéric Chassériau, a period during which he painted a number of portraits. In his 1931 monograph, Léonce Bénédite wrote: "We know very little about these works executed in Marseille. What has become of these portraits, these studies that he announced in such large numbers in his correspondence with his brother, notably of Bedouins, and these sketches? At least, they may still be in the possession of a few families in the region, and Chassériau's growing fame will undoubtedly bring them out one day". The fame of his cousin, a well-known architect, enabled him to rub shoulders with a number of Marseilles notables, including the Pierrugues family. The painting of the young boy is to be compared with another portrait by our painter, of the same size, L'Enfant et la poupée (location unknown; ill.1), dated the same year. Her model is Laure Stéphanie Pierrugues, daughter of Jean-François Pierrugues, a polytechnician and staff officer in command of the 9th artillery regiment in Marseille. The most prominent family member, however, remains Laure Stéphanie's great-uncle, Baron Félix de Beaujour, Officer of the Legion of Honor and member of the Institut de France, who was successively President of the Tribunate, French Ambassador to the United States, then State Councillor and Deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône. His fortune can be traced back to Napoleon Bonaparte, when he was awarded the Légion d'Honneur in recognition of his diplomatic interventions at the time of the Louisiana Purchase and the recovery of a Spanish debt owed to France by Mexico in the same year. Notebook RF 26 080, kept in the Louvre's Department of Graphic Arts, contains two preparatory sketches of portraits of the two children (RF 26 054, 33, Louis-Antoine Prat, Inventaire général des dessins - École française - Théodore Chassériau, vol.2, Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 1988, p. 789-790 n°2229, folio 16, ill. 2). Our little boy, aged around three, is Victor Pierrugues, probably Laure Stéphanie's brother. Chassériau's colorist talents are fully expressed in this contrast between the cool colors of the white garment and the warmer tones of the crimson-red velvet armchair. In his left hand, the child holds a wind instrument, a dwarf snake known as the Russian bassoon. Around his neck, a whistle adorned with four bells is held by a golden chain. This painting bears witness to Chassériau's talent as a child prodigy, who from an early age set himself apart from his contemporaries by attracting the attention of the greatest artists of his time, such as Ingres, his teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Like the paintings in the Louvre, his self-portrait in frock coat (1835), the portrait of his sister (idem) and his brother (1835-1836), our painting fits perfectly into the Romantic movement of his time, of which he was to become a major representative. We would like to thank Louis-Antoine Prat for confirming the autograph nature of this painting and for the information contained in this notice.

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