Charles-Édouard Chaise
# 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

* 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
