Ary Scheffer

**Ary Scheffer**
	Dutch painter (1795-1858)
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Name in native language	Ary Scheffer;
Date of birth	10 February 1795; Dordrecht
Date of death	15 June 1858; Argenteuil
Place of burial	Montmartre Cemetery;
Work period (start)	1810;
Work period (end)	1858;
Country of citizenship	France; Kingdom of the Netherlands;
Occupation	painter; sculptor; draughtsman;
Member of	Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences;
Field of work	art of painting; Romanticism;
Movement	Romanticism;
Father	Johann Baptist Scheffer;
Mother	Cornelia Scheffer;
Sibling	Hendrik Scheffer; Arnold Scheffer;
Child	Cornelia Scheffer;
Spouse	Sophie Marin;
Work location	Dordrecht (1811–1811); Paris (1811–1811); Paris (1811–1813); Paris (1814); Paris (1817); Paris (1819–1822); Paris (1822–1830); Paris (1830–1858); Amsterdam (1854); Britain (1857–1858); Netherlands; Marken;
Notable work	Battle of Tolbiac; Charlemagne at Paderborn; Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta appraised by Dante and Virgil;
Award received	Commander of the Legion of Honour;
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	Q436726; ISNI: 000000010854617X; VIAF cluster ID: 2478799; GND ID: 118975072; Library of Congress authority ID: n84100030; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 11937615v; IdRef ID: 027305198; Léonore ID: LH//2476/36; Biografisch Portaal van Nederland ID: 33965601; NL CR AUT ID: xx0305986; National Library of Spain ID: XX859065; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 06855947X; NUKAT ID: n01013228; PLWABN ID: 9810571000205606; J9U ID: 987007437141105171; FranceArchives agent ID: 18618337; NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA08703809; Open Library ID: OL352951A; Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren author ID: sche014; Union List of Artist Names ID: 500001962; MusicBrainz artist ID: c8faa87e-85e4-4b85-b0e3-98e3daa40006; RKDartists ID: 70240; Web Gallery of Art ID: s/scheffer; Europeana entity: agent/base/66763; KulturNav-ID: e38115c2-d0a5-4322-982e-5eff47565093
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English: Ary Scheffer (February 10, 1795 - June 15, 1858) was a French painter of Dutch extraction. His style has been called "frigidly classical".

Portraits and life

Statue of Ary Scheffer in Dordrecht
Statue of Ary Scheffer in Dordrecht
House of Ary Scheffer in Paris, now Musée de la Vie romantique (Museum of Romantic Life)

Works

Mary Magdalene
. 1845. oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
. 91 × 59 cm (35.8 × 23.2 in). Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Count Eberhard of Württemberg and his Son
label QS:Len,"Count Eberhard of Württemberg and his Son"

label QS:Lnl,"Graaf Eberhard van Württemberg en zijn zoon"
. 1851. oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
. 168 × 208 cm (66.1 × 81.8 in). Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
Frédéric Chopin
Abel-François Villemain
Saint Augustin et sainte Monique
Faust et Marguerite
Paolo and Francesca appear to Dante and Virgil, 1854. Hamburger Kunsthalle
Figure d'ange représentant Mademoiselle de Montblanc après sa mort
Félicie de Fauveau, 1829
De hemelse en aardse liefde, 1850