Théodore Chassériau, September 20, 1819 – October 8, 1856, was a French painter, watercolorist, draftsman, and printmaker. He was born at Sainte-Barbe de Samaná, Saint-Domingue, and died in Paris.

Chassériau studied with Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres from 1830 and entered Ingres’s studio at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1833. He exhibited at the Salon from 1836, joined Ingres in Rome in 1840, and later worked in Paris. His travel to Algeria in 1846 informed a group of North African subjects. He also undertook decorative commissions for Parisian public buildings and churches.

His works are held by the Musée du Louvre and Musée d’Orsay, Paris; the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Harvard Art Museums; the National Gallery of Art, Washington; and the Musée Ingres Bourdelle, Montauban.

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