Theodore Chasseriau
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Théodore Chassériau (Saint-Domingue, 1819 - Paris, 1856) was a French Romantic and history painter. At 12, he was allowed to become a student of Jean Ingres; later he switched to the Romantic school of Eugene Delacroix.
Scene of the harem, Moorish dame in bath
Othello and Desdemona in Venice
He tried everything that was expected of a great painter in his day-an abundance of glamorous portrait paintings and drawings, large-scale ecclesiastic commissions, Orientalist exotica derived from his travels in North Africa and ill-fated attempts at history painting-yet in almost nothing that his facile talents produced at breakneck speed did Chassériau achieve the greatness he aspired to.