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
Bibliography 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