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Ary Scheffer

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Painting of two nude lovers embraced in white drapery, with two robed men in shadow and a red cloak at right.

Dante and Virgil Meeting the Shades of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo

1851

Two women in a dusky landscape, one in blue with a white veil and one in pink with a yellow headscarf, facing each other.

Ruth et Noemi, 1855

1850

Painting of a seated man in red and brown and a veiled woman in white gazing upward against a blue sky and sea.

Saint Augustin et sa mère sainte Monique

1855

Painting of Christ with a halo on a rock, raising his hand as a winged, nude tempter reaches toward him against a blue sky.

La tentation du Christ

1850

Two nude lovers embrace in a dark underworld while Dante and Virgil watch from the right in somber silence.

Dante and Virgil Encountering the Shades of Francesca de Rimini and Paolo in the Underworld

1855

Half-length oil portrait of a man with curly hair in a dark coat and white cravat, holding an open book, against brown.

Self-portrait op 43-jarige leeftijd

1838

Oval painting of a seated woman in gray robes looking upward, with a child clasping her hands and a young attendant in red be

Zalig zijn de reinen van harte

1849

Painting of a red-haired woman in an orange robe raising clasped hands and gazing upward in prayer beside a wooden cross.

Mary Magdalene at the foot of the cross

1815

Seated woman in a pale blue gown beside a marble winged figure and plaster sculptures in an artist's studio.

Princess Marie d'Orléans in Her Studio

c. 1838

Oil portrait of a man in a dark waistcoat, white cravat and open brown greatcoat, turned left against a grey background.

Marquis De Lafayette

1820

Oil painting of an elderly bearded man with bare shoulders, hands clasped at his chest, gazing upward against a dark green ba

Een herder

1840

Half-length oil portrait of a man with curly hair in a dark coat holding an open book, against a brown background.

Self Portrait at the age of 43

1838

Elderly man in chain mail mourns beside a young armored man lying dead on a fur, in a dim interior painting.

Graaf Eberhard van Württemberg treurt bij het lichaam van zijn zoon

1853

Twee kinderkopjes

1848

Tête de Christ

1849

Loose painted portrait of an elderly woman in black mourning dress and white cap, seated in a pink chair against ochre.

Portrait de la Reine Marie-Amélie en deuil

1857

Oil portrait of a balding man in a brown coat and white cravat against a dark background, painted in 1830.

Portrait de Pierre-Jean Béranger (1780-1857), poète-chansonnier

1830

Painting of a crowded legislative chamber with two uniformed men on a red-draped dais addressing rows of standing deputies.

Louis-Philippe prêtant serment devants les chambres, le 9 août 1830

1830

Painting of a haloed saint on a storm-tossed ship pointing upward while terrified sailors and a mother with child cling to th

Saint Thomas d'Aquin prêchant la confiance en Dieu pendant la tempête

1823

Oval oil portrait of a young woman with center-parted dark hair and white garment against a golden background.

Portrait de Cornélia Marjolin-Scheffer

Oval portrait of a young woman with dark hair in a black dress and white collar, against a dark background.

Portrait de Cornélie Renan-Scheffer

1857

Half-length portrait of a clergyman in black cassock with white collar bands, resting his hand on an open book.

Portrait de l'abbé Gaspard Deguerry

1845

Four weary soldiers in winter clothing rest on snowy ground while one points toward distant hills.

Quatre soldats de l'armée en déroute

1826

Unfinished portrait of a young child in a white dress against a warm red-brown background, with loose brushwork.

Cornélie Scheffer enfant

Oil portrait of a seated woman with auburn curls in a white gown and shawl, hand to her cheek, gazing upward.

Portrait de Sophie Marin, veuve du lieutenant général Baudrand

Seated elderly woman in black mourning dress and white lace cap in a red armchair against a dark background.

Portrait de la Reine Marie-Amélie en deuil

1857

Painting of a dying bearded man in bed, with a standing man leaning over him and a mourner seated holding his hand.

La Mort de Géricault

1824

Oval portrait of a young blond boy in a dark jacket and white lace collar against a brown background, in a gilded frame.

Portrait d'enfant

1840

Half-length oil portrait of a balding man in a brown coat and white cravat against a dark background.

Portrait de Pierre-Jean de Béranger

1828

Painting of a young woman with clasped hands and a tear on her cheek, seated in a carved chair in a dark interior.

Marguerite au Rouet

1831

Painting of a mother in a straw hat sheltering two children on rocks beside a stormy, churning sea under dark clouds.

La famille du marin

1826

Oil portrait of a woman in black dress with lace sleeves, gold bracelets and a brooch, beside a vase of flowers.

Portrait présumé de Melle Mars

Painting of a man in an orange tunic and a veiled woman in white gazing upward together against a blue sky and sea.

Saint Augustin et Sainte Monique

Oil portrait of a seated man in a dark suit and white cravat against a red backdrop, dated 1849.

Portrait présumé de Jean Abraham Nottebohm

1849

Seated woman in a white dress with blue sash and lace collar, in a carved armchair before a draped curtain.

Portrait présumé de la princesse Louise d'Orléans

1833

Painted triptych design with a haloed woman in the center and kneeling figures in gothic arched side panels.

Projet pour un triptyque

Painting of a woman comforting two children beside a cottage, with wooden crosses and a dusky sky behind them.

Les orphelins

1823

Painting of a group of families and children on a stormy rocky shore, with breaking waves and a dark sky.

La tempête

1820

Oil portrait of a young woman in a white lace-sleeved dress with a floral wreath in her hair, against a dark background.

Portrait présumé de la princesse Marie d'Orléans

1831

Oil painting of a bearded man in a white robe and headwrap, one arm raised, against a dark interior background.

Le Giaour

1832

Seated woman in black dress with gold cords and blue shawl against a dark red background, painted in 1842.

Portrait de Madame Edouard Caillard

1842

Painting of a pale woman in white holding a dead infant, with a man, an old woman in pink, and a black crow.

Marguerite tenant son enfant mort

1846

Painting of a bearded man in a dark gown seated in a study, a skull and books on the table, a shadowy figure behind him.

Faust dans son cabinet

1848

Portrait de Pauline Viardot en sainte Cécile

1851

Oil portrait of a bearded older man in a fur-collared robe, holding a quill and reading an open book.

Portrait de Calvin

1858

Night painting of a woman embracing a rider on a galloping horse, surrounded by shadowy ghostly figures under a moonlit sky.

Lénore, les morts vont vite

1830

Oil portrait of a woman in a black dress with white collar and gold cross necklace, in an ornate gilded frame.

Portrait de Pauline Viardot

1840

Older man in dark robes weeps in a red chair beside his son lying in gilded armor on fur, under a torn red banner.

Eberhard, comte de Wurtemberg, pleurant la mort de son fils, dit le Larmoyeur

1836

Three robed men look up toward a bright star in a dark sky, one holding a gold vessel and another a scroll.

Les rois mages

1844

Framed painting of women gazing upward toward light, with a sleeping infant in arms and an older man in shadow.

L'adoration des bergers

1844

Oil portrait of a woman with upswept dark hair, gold earrings, and a dark off-shoulder dress against red drapery.

Portrait de femme

1831

Oil landscape of a manor house beside a pond, with two cows on the bank, willows, poplars and a rowboat.

Landschap te La Marche

1825

Painting of a young uniformed soldier with a knapsack knocking at a wooden door beneath a tree at dusk.

De terugkeer van den jonge invalide

1820

Painting of a winged angel in white robes lying asleep face down on a pillow among golden clouds, within a gilded arched fram

Figuur van een treurende engel

Ahasverus of De wandelende jood

1834

Painting of women and winged angels in a golden sky, with upturned faces and clasped hands, by Ary Scheffer.

De smarten der aarde, die in den Hemel troost vinden

Oil portrait of an elderly bald man in a dark coat and white cravat against a dark background, signed Ary Scheffer, 1851.

Portret van Antoine Pétroz (1781 - 1859)

1851

Sketch of two muscular male figures embracing, one winged, in brown tones on a pale blue ground, in a gilded frame.

Jacob en de engel

1856

Painting of a church with a tall spire at sunset, trees around it, and a rider on horseback in the foreground.

De kerk te Esher bij Claremont in het graafschap Surrey bij zonsondergang

Painting of women in flowing robes gazing and reaching upward toward a pale sky, with veiled figures rising above a crowd.

The sorrows of the world

1847

Oil painting of a barefoot young woman in a white blouse and red sash standing on sandy dunes under a grey sky.

Mignon verlangende naar haar vaderland

1850

Oil portrait of a woman in a black dress and white fringed shawl, hands clasped, against a dark background, in a gilded frame

Portrait of madame Victor Place

1852

Painting of a returning army with mounted knights, banners and a trumpeter, and women in distress on a dirt road.

Lenore - De terugkeer van het leger

1829

Oil self portrait of a man with wavy dark hair in a dark coat and white cravat, one hand resting on an open book.

Self portrait

1838

Painting of exhausted soldiers retreating through snow, a mounted officer gesturing among wounded men and fallen bodies under

De terugtocht uit Rusland in 1812

1826

Oval painting of a sleeping child's head and shoulders against a warm red-brown background.

Slapend kind. Borstbeeld

Oil portrait of a man in a dark coat, white cravat and olive greatcoat, turned to the left against a grey background.

Marquis De Lafayette

1822

Interior of a red-walled studio with a woman seated at a table, framed paintings, sculptures, and a large skylight above.

The small Atelier

1850

Portrait of a bearded man in black clerical dress with white collar, resting his hand on an open book against an olive backgr

Portrait of Gaspard Deguerry

1845

Half-length portrait of a woman in a black dress with white off-shoulder neckline and gold cross necklace, against a dark bac

Portrait of Pauline Viardot

1840

Oil painting of a dead bearded man on a white bed, with a standing man leaning over him and a mourner seated bowing beside.

The Death of Géricault

1824

Portrait of Pauline Viardot

1851

Oil painting of a young woman seated at a spinning wheel with clasped hands, in a dark interior with a red chair.

Margarete am Spinnrad

1831

Oval portrait of a young woman with center-parted dark hair, black dress and white collar, in a gilded frame.

Portrait of Cornélie Renan-Scheffer

1857

Oil portrait of a balding man in a brown coat and white cravat against a dark background, by Ary Scheffer.

Portrait de Pierre-Jean Béranger

1830

Portrait of Louis Ratisbonne

1852

Oil portrait of a bearded elderly man in a fur-trimmed robe reading a book and holding a quill pen.

Portrait of Calvin

1858

Painting of a seated woman with auburn curls in a white dress and shawl, resting her head on her hand and looking upward.

Portrait of Sophie Marin

1801

Oil portrait of an elderly woman in a white ruffled bonnet and dark dress, gazing left against a red-brown background.

Portrait of Róża Branicka

1850

Portrait of Eliza Krasińska

1849

Portrait of an old man (Berthold Schwarz?)

1850

Dark oil sketch of a rocky scene where a central woman raises her arm among struggling figures under a stormy sky.

Les Femmes souliotes

1826

Painting of a woman with braided auburn hair in an orange robe, looking upward with clasped hands raised in prayer.

Marie Madeleine au pied de la croix

1815

Oil portrait of a bald man in a dark uniform with gold epaulettes, red sash and medals, against a brown background.

Comte Drouet d'Erlon

1832

Painting of a young woman in white drapery, hands clasped in prayer, floating against a blue background in an arched gilded f

Figure d'ange représentant Mademoiselle de Montblanc après sa mort

1847

Half-length portrait of a woman with dark hair in a bun, wearing a white shawl, against a green oval background.

La comtesse de Gobineau

1850

Oil painting of a bearded scholar at a cluttered desk with a skull, while a sinister pale figure looms behind him.

Faust and Mephistopheles

1848

Oil painting of a woman in a hat sheltering two children under a cloak against a stormy sky on a rocky slope.

Rising tide

1823

Painting of haloed Christ on a cloud comforting kneeling figures, a woman unbinding chains, and a nude youth reclining.

Christus Consolator

1851

Oil portrait of a woman with braided brown hair, hand on chin, in white blouse and red shawl against blue.

Mrs Mrs Robert Hollond, philanthropist, nee Ellen Julia Teed (1822 - 1884) by Ary Scheffer

1851

Greek women kneel in a rocky cave, praying toward an icon in a niche while a battle unfolds in the distance.

戦いの中、聖母の加護を願うギリシャの乙女たち

1826

Oval portrait of a dark-haired woman in a white blouse and yellow shawl, arm resting on a blue cushion, in a gilt frame.

Portrait of Katarzyna Potocka née Branicka (1825-1907)

1850

Elderly bearded man in gold-trimmed robe raises a golden goblet at a table, with a red-cloaked attendant behind him.

The King of Thule

1838

Sketch of the Virgin and Child in a cloud with two kneeling figures below, in a gilded arched frame.

The Painter Raphael and the Poet Dante in Adoration Before the Blessed Virgin and Child

1810

Painting of a veiled woman in white gesturing beside a nude red-haired woman holding a rose, with a leopard skin and blue sky

Heavenly and Earthly Love

1850

Painting of an elderly woman asleep on white pillows in a white headcloth, set in a gilded arch and carved wooden frame.

Doodsbedportret de moeder van de kunstenaar Cornelia Scheffer- Lamme

1839