PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.
He was a native of Paris, and died in that city in 1814.
CHASSERIAU, Theodore, a French historical and portrait painter, was bom at Sainte-Barbe de Samana in the Antilles in 1819. Brought to France whilst quite a boy, he was placed in the studio of Ingres, and he afterwards followed that master to the French school at Rome, but subse- quently quitted him in order togire himself up more &eely to his own inspirations. He next fell under the influence of the leader of another great school, Delaroche. Chasseriau executed several large mural paintings on the grand staircase of the Cour des Comptes in the palace of the Conseil d'jjtat. and in the churches of St. Merry, St. Roch, and St. Pliilippe-du-Roule at Paris. Among his works may be cited the ' Tepidariura at Pompeii ' (now in the Louvre), 'Arab Cavaliers carrying away their Dead,' ' The Arabian Challenge,' ' Susannah and the Elders,' ' Christ in the Garden of Olives.' and ' Mary Stuart defending Rizzio against his Assas- sins.' His chief portraits are those of Lacordaire and of Madame de Girardin. He also left behind him fifteen etchings of subjects from Sliakespeare's ' Othello,' and thirty from ' Hamlet.' He died in Paris in 1856.
CHASTEAU. Grii.i.ACME, a French engraver, was bom at Orleans in 1635. He was instructed by Greuter, but afterwards studied under Comelis Bloemaert, and went for further improvement to Italy. After passing several years at Rome he returned to Paris, where he was employed bj" Col- bert. His first productions were some portraits of the I'upes. He afterwards engraved several prints after N. Poussin and some of the Italian painters, son.e of which are entirely executed with the graver, in the style of Poilly and Bloemaert. whilst others are the work of the point, which he handled with spirit and taste. Indeed it is to be regretted that he did not always follow that style, as being more picturesque and free. The plates which he engraved at Rome are usually marked Gulielmvf Castellus Gallus. He became an academician in 1663. and died in Paris in 1683. The following are his principal works ;
A set of Portraits of the Popes. Portrait of Jean Baptiste Colbert; oval Portrait of the Bishop of Kuette. The Virgin with the lufant Jesus, embracing a Cross. The Life of St. Theresa. The Miraculous Draught of Fishes ; aftej' Raphael. The Baptism of Christ ; after Allaui. St. Paul restored to sight by Ananias ; after Pietro da Cortona. The Martyrdom of St. Stephen ; a/<«- Annihah Carraeci The Assumption of the Virgin ; after the same. Christ appearing to St. Peter; after the same. The Repose m Egypt ; after Correygio. The Holy Family, with St. John ; after X. Poussin. The Israelites gathering Manna in the Wilderness; after the same. Christ healing the Blind ; after the same St. Paul taken up to Heaven ; after the samf. The Preservation of the Young Pjrrhus ; after the same. Einaldo and Aimida ; after the same. The Death of Germanicus ; after the same. The Virgin and Infant Jesus ; after yoel Cot/pel. The Holy Family ; after the same. Aktoikette Chasteau, the wife of Guillaume Chasteau. was a daughter of the landscape painter, Antoine Herault. She was bom in Paris in 1642. and distinguished herself as & painter of miniatures, executing both portraits and copies of the works of great masters, among the latter being the 'Family of Darius,' after Lebrun. She married in 1686, as her secoi.d husband, the painter Jean Baptiste Bonnart, and died in Paris in 1695.
CHASTEAU, Nicolas, (or Chateau,) a French engraver, was bom in Paris about the year 1680, and died about 1750. We have the following plates by him :
A Young Lady, with a Mask in her Hand ; half-length ; after Santerre. A Young Lady in a Spanish Dress ; half-length ; after the same. Summer, represented by a female figure ; half-length ; after P. van den Berge. Venus and Adonis ; after L. Silvestre. Daphne and Apollo ; after the same. Kiualdo and Armida ; after the same ; finished by J. Audran. There was likewise a painter named Nicolas Chasteau, who died in Paris in 1704, at the age of 44.
CHASTEL, FBAxgois du. See Duchatel.
CHASTILLON, Claude, a French engineer, topograplier, and engraver, was bom at Chalons-sur- Marne in 1547, and died in Paris in 1616. There is by him a valuable series of plates entitled. ' Topo- graphic franyoise, ou representation de plusieurs villes, bourgs, chasteaux. maisons de plaisance, mines et vestiges d'antiquitez du royaume de France,' published in 1641, and again with additions in 1647.
CHASTILLON, Louis de, a French piinter in enamel and miniature, and an engraver, was born at Ste. M^nehould in Champagne about 1639. He excelled in enamel painting, and executed all the portraits which the king gave, set in jewels, to the foreign ambassadors. He engraved several large plates after the designs of Tortebat, and ap- pears to have been an imitator of the fine style of Gerard Audran. His prints are not without merit, though greatly inferior to those of his model. He died in the Louvre in 1734. We have by him the following plates :
The Adulteress before Christ ; after S. Bourdon. The Conversion of St. Paul ; after the same. The Seven Sacraments ; after Poussin. St. John in the Isle of Patmos ; after the same Jupiter and Leda : after the same. The Fates spinning the Destiuy of Marie de' Medici ; after liubens. Two sets of prints of the Fountains at Versailles. A set of plates of the Pavilions at Marly.
CHATAIGNIER. Alexis, a French engraver, born at Nantes in 1772, was a pupil of Qiieverdo. He executed a large number of plates for Filhol's ' JIusee Franfais,' and died in Paris in 1817.
CHATARINUS. See Venetiis.
CHATEL. Francois du. See Duchatel.
CHATELAIN. Jeas Baptiste Claude, an en- graver, was born in Paris about 1710. One account given of his history states that his proper name was Philippe, and that he served as a French oflicer in the campaign in Flanders, but afterwards devoted himself to the pursuit of art. He was endowed with extraordinary capacity ; and had his application been but equal to his genius, few would have surpassed him in the branch of art to which his natural disposition directed him. He had a peculiar talent for drawing landscapes, either from nature or his own fancy, with a readi- ness that was altogether surprising. Unfortunately, from his idle and dissolute course of life, he seldom exercised his abilities until compelled by necessity.
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