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It was shown at the Paris Salon of 1842, where it was not fully understood. Baron Arthur Chassériau, a distant relative of the painter, bequeathed it to the Louvre in 1934 with most of the artist's work he owned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThéodore Chassériau (1819–1856) was a French Romantic painter, born at El Limón in Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic) and raised in Paris, who entered the studio of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres in 1830 at the age of eleven and later came under the influence of Eugène Delacroix. He painted portraits, religious and mythological subjects and murals, among them The Toilette of Esther (1841), The Two Sisters (1843) and Tepidarium (1853). His first journey to Algeria in 1846 led to Orientalist paintings such as Jewish Women on a Balcony (1849) and Battle of Arab Horsemen Around a Standard (1854). He died in Paris at thirty-seven; his work is held by the Louvre, which has a room dedicated to him, the Musée d'Orsay and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach print is made to our \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/archival-museum-standards\"\u003eArchival Museum Standards\u003c\/a\u003e: a 12-ink giclée, printed to order. Unframed prints are made on Hahnemühle German Etching, a 310gsm matte fine-art paper. Framed prints arrive in a handmade solid-wood frame with acrylic glazing, ready to hang. 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