Jewish Woman of Algiers Seated on the Ground, ca. 1846, Watercolor over graphite on wove paper (trimmed and laid down on blue wove paper), Sheet: 11 3/4 x 9 1/8 in. (29. 8 x 23. 2cm), Drawings, Theodore Chasseriau (French, Le Limon, Saint-Domingue, West Indies 1819?1856 Paris), Chasseriau, one of the most important figures in French art of the nineteenth century?although he is not well known today?followed Eugene Delacroix (French, 1798?1863) and others who traveled to North Africa in response to the prevailing vogue for exotic subjects