Lot 354
354
Theodore Chasseriau* (1819-1856)
Theodore Chasseriau* (1819-1856)

Hero and Leander

Details
Theodore Chasseriau* (1819-1856)
Hero and Leander
signed and dated 'Th. Chassriau 1839'
pencil of heightened with white on beige paper
9 x 8.1/8 in. (236 x 208 mm.)
Provenance
C.L. Mairet, his seal and inscription 'Thodore Chassriau 1839 Hro et Landre Dessin a la mine de plomb C.L. Mairet', on a label attached to the mount.
Literature
L-A. Prat, Inventaire gnral des dessins de l'cole franaise, dessins de Thodore Chassriau, Paris, 1988, II, p. 820.

Lot Essay

A sketch for this composition is on the verso of folio 16 of an album in the Louvre, L.-A. Prat, op. cit., no. 223, pp. 820-1, illustrated. The composition must have been planned as early as September 1838, date on the recto of the Louvre drawing. Chassriau painted a picture of the same subject more than ten years later, albeit of very different composition, M. Sandoz, Thodore Chassriau, Paris, 1974, no. 185, pl. CLXIV.