Artworks · Théodore Chassériau

He Smothers Her, plate thirteen from Othello

1844 · Etching and engraving on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper

Image: 25.1 × 22.8 cm (9 15/16 × 9 in.); Plate: 34.7 × 24.6 cm (13 11/16 × 9 11/16 in.); Sheet: 64 × 49 cm (25 1/4 × 19 5/16 in.)

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If I Do Die Before Thee, plate eight from Othello

1844 · Etching, engraving and drypoint on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper

Image: 28.7 × 21.2 cm (11 5/16 × 8 3/8 in.); Plate: 34.5 × 24.4 cm (13 5/8 × 9 5/8 in.); Sheet: 64 × 49 cm (25 1/4 × 19 5/16 in.)

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Yet She Must Die, plate eleven from Othello

1844 · Etching, engraving, roulette and drypoint on ivory chine, laid down on white wove paper

Image: 31.3 × 24 cm (12 3/8 × 9 1/2 in.); Plate: 36.5 × 26 cm (14 3/8 × 10 1/4 in.); Sheet: 64 × 49 cm (25 1/4 × 19 5/16 in.)

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Villain, Thou Diest, plate ten from Othello

1844 · Etching, engraving and aquatint on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper

Image: 29.2 × 21.5 cm (11 1/2 × 8 1/2 in.); Plate: 34.8 × 25 cm (13 3/4 × 9 7/8 in.); Sheet: 64 × 49 cm (25 1/4 × 19 5/16 in.)

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Honest Iago, Desdemona Must I Leave to Thee, plate 4 (act 1, scene 3), from Othello

1844 · Etching, engraving, roulette and drypoint on ivory chine, laid down on white wove paper

Image: 28.7 × 21 cm (11 5/16 × 8 5/16 in.); Plate: 36.5 × 26.2 cm (14 3/8 × 10 3/8 in.); Sheet: 64 × 49 cm (25 1/4 × 19 5/16 in.)

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Away!, plate 7 (act 3, scene 4) from Othello

1844 · Etching, engraving, roulette and drypoint on ivory chine, laid down on white wove paper

Image: 23.5 × 32.2 cm (9 5/16 × 12 11/16 in.); Plate: 26.2 × 36.6 cm (10 3/8 × 14 7/16 in.); Primary support: 25.2 × 35.3 cm (9 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.); Secondary support: 64 × 49 cm (25 1/4 × 19 5/16 in.)

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The Willow Song, plate nine from Othello

1844 · Etching, engraving, roulette and drypoint on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper

Image: 29.7 × 22.7 cm (11 3/4 × 8 15/16 in.); Plate: 36.8 × 26.2 cm (14 1/2 × 10 3/8 in.); Sheet: 64 × 49 cm (25 1/4 × 19 5/16 in.)

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Therefore be Merry Cassio, plate 6 (act 3, scene 3) from Othello

1844 · Etching, engraving, roulette and drypoint on ivory chine, laid down on white wove paper

Image: 26.7 × 21.2 cm (10 9/16 × 8 3/8 in.); Plate: 31.8 × 24.3 cm (12 9/16 × 9 5/8 in.); Primary support: 30.6 × 23.1 cm (12 1/16 × 9 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 64 × 49 cm (25 1/4 × 19 5/16 in.)

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O My Fair Warrior!, plate 5 (act 2, scene 1) from Othello

1844 · Etching, engraving, roulette and drypoint on ivory chine, laid down on white wove paper

Image: 27.5 × 34.2 cm (10 7/8 × 13 1/2 in.); Plate: 31 × 40.3 cm (12 1/4 × 15 7/8 in.); Primary support: 30.1 × 33.8 cm (11 7/8 × 13 5/16 in.); Secondary support: 64 × 49 cm (25 1/4 × 19 5/16 in.)

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She Thank’d Me, plate 2 (act 1, scene 3), from Othello

1844 · Etching, engraving, roulette and drypoint on ivory chine, laid down on white wove paper

Image: 28 × 21 cm (11 1/16 × 8 5/16 in.); Plate: 36.4 × 26.3 cm (14 3/8 × 10 3/8 in.); Primary support: 35 × 25 cm (13 13/16 × 9 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 64 × 49 cm (25 1/4 × 19 5/16 in.)

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She Lov’d Me for the Dangers I Had Pass’d, plate 3 (act 1, scene 3) from Othello,

1844 · Etching, engraving and drypoint on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper

Image: 27.8 × 31 cm (11 × 12 1/4 in.); Plate: 34.2 × 36 cm (13 1/2 × 14 3/16 in.); Primary support: 33.2 × 35 cm (13 1/8 × 13 13/16 in.); Secondary support: 64 × 49 cm (25 1/4 × 19 5/16 in.)

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Owake! What Ho! Brabantio!plate 1 (act 1, scene 1) from Othello

1844 · Etching, engraving and drypoint on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper

Image: 32.9 × 23.7 cm (13 × 9 3/8 in.); Plate: 37 × 26.5 cm (14 5/8 × 10 7/16 in.); Primary support: 36 × 25.7 cm (14 3/16 × 10 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 64 × 49 cm (25 1/4 × 19 5/16 in.)

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O My Fair Warrior!, plate five from Othello

1844 · Etching, engraving, roulette and drypoint on light gray China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

Chine: 28.4 × 34.8 cm (11 3/16 × 13 3/4 in.); Plate: 31.5 × 40.2 cm (12 7/16 × 15 7/8 in.); Sheet: 38 × 55.4 cm (15 × 21 13/16 in.)

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If I Do Die Before Thee, plate eight from Othello

1844 · Etching, engraving and drypoint on off-white China paper, laid down on cream wove paper

Image: 28.5 × 21.5 cm (11 1/4 × 8 1/2 in.); Sheet: 29.2 × 22.3 cm (11 1/2 × 8 13/16 in.)

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Therefore be merry, Cassio, plate six from Othello

1844 · Etching, engraving, roulette and drypoint on light gray China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

Chine: 27.3 × 22.3 cm (10 3/4 × 8 13/16 in.); Plate: 31.6 × 24.8 cm (12 1/2 × 9 13/16 in.); Sheet: 53.2 × 38.7 cm (21 × 15 1/4 in.)

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Yet She Must Die, plate eleven from Othello

1844 · Etching, engraving, roulette and drypoint on ivory chine, laid down on white wove paper (chine collé)

Image: 31.2 × 24.2 cm (12 5/16 × 9 9/16 in.); Chine: 31.8 × 25 cm (12 9/16 × 9 7/8 in.); Plate: 36.5 × 26.4 cm (14 3/8 × 10 7/16 in.); Sheet: 39.4 × 28.4 cm (15 9/16 × 11 3/16 in.)

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He Smothers Her, plate thirteen from Othello

1844 · Etching and engraving on ivory China paper, laid down on cream wove paper

Image: 24.9 × 22.9 cm (9 13/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Chine: 25.8 × 23.7 cm (10 3/16 × 9 3/8 in.); Plate: 34.5 × 25 cm (13 5/8 × 9 7/8 in.); Sheet: 48.5 × 36.6 cm (19 1/8 × 14 7/16 in.)

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Away!, plate seven from Othello

1844 · Etching, engraving, roulette and drypoint on off-white China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

Image: 23.6 × 31.1 cm (9 5/16 × 12 1/4 in.); Chine: 34.3 × 32.6 cm (13 9/16 × 12 7/8 in.); Plate: 26.1 × 36.5 cm (10 5/16 × 14 3/8 in.); Sheet: 34 × 49 cm (13 7/16 × 19 5/16 in.)

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She Thank'd Me, plate two from Othello

1844 · Etching, engraving, roulette and drypoint on ivory China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

Image/chine: 27.8 × 21.1 cm (11 × 8 5/16 in.); Plate: 36.4 × 26.5 cm (14 3/8 × 10 7/16 in.); Sheet: 46.5 × 33.9 cm (18 5/16 × 13 3/8 in.)

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O Spartan dog, plate fifteen from Othello

1844 · Etching, engraving, roulette and drypoint on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper

Image: 28.8 × 36 cm (11 3/8 × 14 3/16 in.); Chine: 29.7 × 37.9 cm (11 3/4 × 14 15/16 in.); Plate: 32.1 × 39.8 cm (12 11/16 × 15 11/16 in.); Sheet: 38.4 × 49.4 cm (15 1/8 × 19 1/2 in.)

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Yet She Must Die, plate eleven from Othello

1844 · Etching, engraving, roulette and drypoint on off-white China paper, laid down on cream laid paper

Image: 31.2 × 23.1 cm (12 5/16 × 9 1/8 in.); Chine: 31.8 × 25 cm (12 9/16 × 9 7/8 in.); Plate: 36.5 × 26.4 cm (14 3/8 × 10 7/16 in.); Sheet: 39.4 × 28.4 cm (15 9/16 × 11 3/16 in.)

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Frontispiece, from Othello

1844 · Etching, engraving and drypoint on white wove paper

Plate: 40 × 26.8 cm (15 3/4 × 10 9/16 in.); Sheet: 45.1 × 31.6 cm (17 13/16 × 12 1/2 in.)

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She Lov'd Me for the Dangers, plate three from Othello

1844 · Etching, engraving, roulette and drypoint on ivory China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

Chine: 28.7 × 33.9 cm (11 5/16 × 13 3/8 in.); Plate: 34.5 × 36.4 cm (13 5/8 × 14 3/8 in.); Sheet: 39.5 × 52.8 cm (15 9/16 × 20 13/16 in.)

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Villain, Thou Diest, plate ten from Othello

1844 · Etching, engraving and aquatint on light gray China paper, laid down on white wove paper

Image: 29 × 21.7 cm (11 7/16 × 8 9/16 in.); Chine: 29.7 × 22.6 cm (11 3/4 × 8 15/16 in.); Plate: 34.8 × 25.1 cm (13 3/4 × 9 15/16 in.); Sheet: 48.3 × 35.5 cm (19 1/16 × 14 in.)

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Portrait of a Young Woman with Pearl Necklaces

1841 · oil paint

Venus Anadyomene

1841 · lithograph

National Gallery of Art

Venus Anadyomene

1841 · lithograph on gray-tinted chine colle

National Gallery of Art

Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850)

1841 · Oil on canvas

52 x 37 1/4 in. (132.1 x 94.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Baroness Duperré and Her Daughters

1841 · Graphite on wove paper

Sheet: 13 3/4 x 10 5/8 in. (35 x 27cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jewish Woman of Algiers Seated on the Ground

1841 · Watercolor over graphite on wove paper (trimmed and laid down on blue wove paper)

Sheet: 11 3/4 x 9 1/8 in. (29.8 x 23.2cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

An Angel Praying in the Garden of Olives

1840 · oil paint

Drover with Oxen Pulling a Cart

1840 · watercolor over brush and brown ink on wove paper

overall: 25 x 30.6 cm (9 13/16 x 12 1/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Othello's Speech to the Senators of Venice

1839 · Graphite on ivory wove paper, permeter mounted on cream laid paper

22 × 29 cm (8 11/16 × 11 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Scene from the Gallic Wars: The Gaul Littavicus, Betraying the Roman Cause, Flees to Gergovie to Support Vercingétorix

1838 · Oil on canvas

13 1/2 x 17 3/4 in. (34.3 x 45.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of Jennins

1838 · Graphite and touches of black chalk on beige laid paper

Sheet: 12 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. (31.8 x 23.5cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Etude d'après le modèle Joseph

1836 · oil paint

The Punishment of Cain

1836 · oil paint

Auguste Ottin

1833 · graphite with stumping on multicolored (originally light pink) fiber laid paper

overall: 40.8 x 29.5 cm (16 1/16 x 11 5/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Mass

1832 · Brush, ink and gray wash, heightened with white over graphite on beige laid paper

Sheet: 12 1/16 x 9 3/16 in. (30.7 x 23.4cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Count Philibert-Oscar de Ranchicourt

1831 · Graphite on wove paper

Sheet: 11 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. (29.9 x 24.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two Girls

oil paint