Portrait of the Baroness Chassériau
- Medium
- Graphite on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 31.4 × 23.5 cm (12 3/8 × 9 5/16 in.)
- Genre
- Graphite
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)graphiteprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
The refinement and sensitivity of Chassériau's pencil portraits demonstrate clearly that he was the pupil of Ingres, the great master of this genre. Chassériau delighted in drawing the members of his family, and made this portrait of his cousin by marriage when he visited her home in Marseilles upon his return from Algiers in 1846.
