Reclining Female Nude

Signed Th Chasseriau, graphite on tan wove paper, c. 1850, 105 x 165 mm.

Provenance: Gerhard Pinkus, Beverly Hills,

Henri Joachim Delacroix (1873-1937), Paris, Lugt 3604, his stamp, recto, lower left.

Reference: LA Prat Théodore Chassériau

Cahiers du Dessin Français, Paris, 1989, no 95, ill.

from Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856) The Unknown Romantic, MMA, 2002……...(Jean-Louis) Vaudoyer wrote in 1933, that Chassériau, like Botticelli, Leonardo, Bronzino, and Prud’hon had the privilege of endowing the world of art with a female type whose physique and physiognomy had not existed before him…..Chassériau devised a novel and creative synthesis of classical and Renaissance depictions of the nude, which he adapted to the materialism and sensuality of his day...