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Théodore Chassériau (El Limón, September 20, 1819 - Paris, October 8, 1856) was a French painter. The family moved to Paris in 1821, where the young Chassériau soon showed precocious drawing skill. He was accepted into the studio of Ingres in 1830, at the age of eleven, becoming the favourite pupil of the great classicist, who came to regard him as his truest disciple. An account that may be apocryphal has Ingres declaring "Come, gentlemen, come see, this child will be the Napoleon of painting.” After a period of ill health, exacerbated by his exhausting work on commissions for murals to decorate the Churches of Saint-Roch and Saint-Philippe-du-Roule, Chassériau died at the age of 37 in Paris, on October 8, 1856.
[Musée du Louvre, Paris - Oil on canvas, 92 x 74 cm]