Théodore Chassériau
Study for “Ariadne Abandoned”
1834-1844
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Théodore Chassériau
Study for “Ariadne Abandoned”
1834-1844
Physical Qualities
Brush and black wash over graphite, heightened with white, Sheet: 258 × 211 mm. (10 3/16 × 8 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Albert Hendler, Bernard R. Hendler, Bernice Hendler Kolodny and Florence Hendler Trupp
Object Number
1964.101
Female nude kneeling against a tree in despair over the departure of the boat that has left her on the island of Naxos. Support: cream, medium-weight, moderately textured laid paper.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1964; F. Kleinberger and Co., New York, 1962 (?); Sale Henri Delacroix, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 4, 1962, no. 193 as 'Thetis' [see Sandoz 1974, no. 133]; Chassériau Sale, Paris, March 16, 1857.
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
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Fisher, Jay McKean, et al. The Essence of Line: French drawings from Ingres to Degas. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, p. 156-59, ill.
Reproduced in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Supplement, (Feb. 1965), p. 4, no. 219. Louis-Antoine Prat, Théodore Chassériau, 1819-1856, dessins conservés en dehors du Louvre, Paris: Galerie de Bayser, [1988], p. 17, no. 63, ill.
'Recent Accessions: A Selection', The Baltimore Museum of Art News 27:2 (1964), p. 51.
Marc Sandoz, Théodore Chassériau 1819-1856: catalogue raisonné des peintures et estampes, Paris: Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1974.
Inscribed: RECTO: BRC, (blue stamp), 'TH.CHASSERIAU' [Lugt 443]; BLC, (black stamp), monogram 'HD'.
