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Théodore Chassériau

Born: El Limon (now in the Dominican Republic), 20 September 1819
Died: Paris, 8 October 1856
Nationality: French
Background: 

bourgeois

Studies: 

with Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1830-34)

Career: 

1836 – Salon debut; receives third-class medal for Cain Accursed (private collection)

1844 – receives commission for allegorical series War and Peace (1844-48, Louvre, Paris) for the Cour des Comptes in the Palais d’Orsay (Paris)

Travels

Rome (1840-41); Algeria (1846)

Commissions from: 

French government