National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers
The National Museum of Fine Arts in Algiers is one of the largest art museums in Africa. Opened to the public since 5 May 1930, it is located in the Hamma district, next to the Hamma test garden.
Facade of imposing building of Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Alger
Cavalier, Eugène Fromentin.
La Fenaison aux environs de Dieppe, 1885 Paul Gauguin.
Le Canal du Loing en hiver, 1891 Alfred Sisley.
Théodore Chassériau was a Dominican-born French Romantic painter noted for his portraits, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, and Orientalist images inspired by his travels to Algeria. Early in his career he painted in a Neoclassical style close to that of his teacher Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, but in his later works he was strongly influenced by the Romantic style of Eugène Delacroix. He was a prolific draftsman, and made a suite of prints to illustrate Shakespeare's Othello. The portrait he painted at the age of 15 of Prosper Marilhat makes Chassériau the youngest painter exhibited at the Louvre museum.
A self-portrait of Chassériau painted at the age of 16
The Toilette of Esther, 1841, oil on canvas, 45.5 x 35.5 cm, Paris, Louvre
Statue of painter Théodore Chassériau located in Santa Bárbara de Samaná
Vénus marine dite Vénus Anadyomène, 1838, Paris, Louvre