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| Théodore Chassériau Study of Antique Torso ca. 1840 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Théodore Chassériau Draped Leg before 1856 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Théodore Chassériau after Michelangelo Ignudo from Sistine Ceiling ca. 1840 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Théodore Chassériau Sketch of Shakespeare before 1856 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Théodore Chassériau Académie before 1856 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Théodore Chassériau Académie before 1856 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Théodore Chassériau Académie before 1856 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Théodore Chassériau Académie before 1856 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Théodore Chassériau Portrait of Alphonse de Lamartine 1844 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Théodore Chassériau Portrait of a Woman ca. 1850-55 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Théodore Chassériau Sleeping Apostle ca. 1844 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| Théodore Chassériau Rocks at Capri 1840 watercolor Musée du Louvre |
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| Théodore Chassériau Diana and Actaeon before 1856 drawing, with watercolor Musée du Louvre |
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| Théodore Chassériau Cain Accursed before 1856 watercolor Musée du Louvre |
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| Théodore Chassériau Young Neapolitan 1840 watercolor Musée du Louvre |
"This child will be the Napoleon of painting," Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres predicted about the prodigy who entered his studio at age eleven. Before he was seventeen, Théodore Chassériau won a third-class medal at the Salon. . . . In 1840 he joined Ingres in Rome. Increasingly critical of the academic curriculum, Chassériau became interested in the Romantic art of Ingres's nemesis, Eugène Delacroix. As Chassériau recounted the break, "In a long conversation with M. Ingres, I saw that on many issues we could never have a meeting of minds." In response, Ingres announced, "Never speak to me again of that child!"
– from curator's notes at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles