Théodore Chassériau
Study for “Ariadne Abandoned”
c. 1840-1841
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
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.
Jay McKean Fisher, William R. Johnston and Cheryl K. Snay, 'The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas,' organized by The Walters Art Museum and The Baltimore Museum of Art, circulated to The Walters Art Museum June 19, 2005 - September 11, 2005, The Birmingham Museum of Art February 9, 2006 - May 4, 2006, Tacoma Art Museum June 9, 2006 - September 7, 2006.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Master Drawings by French Artists in the Museum's Collection', May 14-July 23, 1989.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
Sarah Whitfield, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 'The Academic Tradition', June 19-Aug. 11, 1968, no. 21, p. 15.
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, 'Ingres and His Circle', March 3-24, 1967, no. 16. See Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 24:3 (Spring 1967); pp. 160-61.
Museum of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 'French Watercolors 1760-1860', Sept. 29-Oct. 24, 1965, no. 67.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Master Drawings by French Artists in the Museum's Collection', May 14-July 23, 1989.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
Sarah Whitfield, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 'The Academic Tradition', June 19-Aug. 11, 1968, no. 21, p. 15.
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, 'Ingres and His Circle', March 3-24, 1967, no. 16. See Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 24:3 (Spring 1967); pp. 160-61.
Museum of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 'French Watercolors 1760-1860', Sept. 29-Oct. 24, 1965, no. 67.
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.
Inscribed: RECTO: BRC, (blue stamp), 'TH.CHASSERIAU' [Lugt 443]; BLC, (black stamp), monogram 'HD'.
