The artist, sold to Francois-Victor-Emmanuel Arago (1812-1896), Paris 1836, probably by descent to his heirs, 1896, until at least c.1911. View this object's location on our interactive mapįrame: 141 x 181.6 x 8.9 cm (55 1/2 x 71 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.) Level 2, Room 2120, European and American Art, 17th–19th century, The Lure of the East Modeled after the artist’s own visage, it suggests his emotional identification with subjects concerning unease and isolation. The only visible face in the composition is that of the child to the left. Their milky rendering reveals Chassériau’s artistic debt to Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the painter’s mentor, who had recently left Paris to head the French Academy in Rome. Their bodies form the painting’s only vertical elements, further emphasizing the bleakness of the wilderness. Overcome with sorrow, the group wanders into a landscape devoid of light, vegetation, and human scale. Chassériau contrasts lights and darks to convey an immediate feeling of pathos. It depicts the exile of Cain and his family as retribution for the murder of his brother Abel. Painted when he was only sixteen years old, this brooding composition formed part of Chassériau’s successful submission to the Salon of 1836.
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