Charles-Édouard Chaise

Charles-Édouard Chaise (1759, Paris – 1798, Fontainebleau) was a French neoclassical painter.

Life

His father was a painter, art dealer and member of the Académie de Saint-Luc. Charles-Edouard studied under Jean Bonvoisin in 1775, then under Jean-Jacques Lagrenée, before winning second prize in the 1778 prix de Rome with David condemning to death the Amalekite bringing him Saul's diadem.

Surviving works
Theseus, defeater of the Minotaur, 1791
  • Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Herminie mourning for Tancred, drawing, 1792.
  • Reims, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pelias's daughters demanding that Medea rejuvenate their father, oil on canvas.
  • Strasbourg, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Theseus, defeater of the Minotaur, oil on canvas

Salons

1783, Salon de la Correspondance

  • XXII, A Vestal offering a sacrifice.
  • XXIII, Another [Vestal] who reverses the altar on which the sacred flame burns
  • XXIV, The Prodigal Son.
  • LIX, A painting representing Hope consoling Love
  • LX, A sketch representing Innocence seduced by Love

1791, Salon de la Société des Amis des Arts

  • n° 61, Sketch for his painting of Oedipus discovered by Shepherds
  • n° 62, Sketch for his painting of the death of Diogenes
  • n° 63, Crayon drawing in three colours, historical subject
  • n° 95, Prudence sleeping.

Salons (of the ex-académie Royale)

1791

  • n° 128, Young woman making an offering to the god Pan
  • n° 647, Prudence sleeping.
  • n° 724, Shepherds of Arcadia.
  • n° 733, Pelias's daughters demanding that Medea rejuvenate their father, Musée de Reims.
  • n° 764, Festival to Bacchus.

1793

  • n° 23, Two young people at a window.
  • n° 260, Septimius Severus reproaching his son for having wished to assassinate him.
  • n° 266, Young woman at her toilette

Bibliography
  • (in French) Dominique Jacquot, «À propos de Thésée vainqueur du Minotaure du musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Jalons pour Charles-Édouard Chaise.» La Revue des Musées de France. Revue du Louvre, 1 February 2007, pages 55–60
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