CHASSESRIAU

chassesriau, theodore (1819-1856), french painter, was born in the antilles, and studied under ingres at paris and at rome, subsequently falling under the influence of paul delaroche. he was a well-known painter of portraits and historical pieces, his "tepidarium at pompeii" (1853) being now in the louvre. chassis (fr. _chassis_, a frame, from the late. lat. _capsum_, an enclosed space), properly a window-frame, from which is derived the word "sash"; also the movable traversing frame of a gun, and more particularly that part of a motor vehicle consisting of the wheels, frame and machinery, on which the body or carriage part rests.