Although classically trained under Ingres, Chassériau had become influenced by the Romantic master Eugène Delacroix, as evidenced in this case by the work's strong coloring. The work is a product of Chassériau's early maturity, when he was eager to demonstrate his independence from his former master, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, with whom he had had a falling-out in 1840. Their two figures, outlined in black, stand out against the green background. Both sisters have fine, shiny dark hair parted in the middle and tied back in a bun. Their age difference is not apparent in the painting. Although the representation of the identically dressed sisters suggests twinship, Adèle was thirty-three and Aline was twenty-one when they posed for the portrait. On the left, wearing a lush rose at her waist, is his older sister, Adèle on the right is Aline. It is housed in the Musée du Louvre, in Paris.Ĭhassériau depicted on this canvas his two sisters, who had already served as his models on other occasions. Completed when the artist was twenty-three years of age, it depicts Chassériau's sisters Adèle and Aline. The Two Sisters ( French: Les Deux Sœurs) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French romantic artist Théodore Chassériau, created in 1843. Painting by Théodore Chassériau The Two Sisters
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