Antoine chintreuil, painted by his lifelong companion and protégé jean desbrosses, c. 1872-1873. Frédéric henriet in the book la vie et l'oeuvre de chintreuil (1874), page xxxviii, calls it a portrait "of a very intimate character. Chintreuil is represented in profile, his features and body emaciated by suffering. Slumped in a large armchair, the poor artist consults a drawing; perhaps it forms some new painting project. Seeing him still cling to the future with this stubborn hope, we cling to this consoling thought: the art that has filled his life will at least have hidden its last hour from him. ".
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