# SCHEFFER, Ary

[View the canonical artist record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/scheffer-ary-r11e30afda508de>)

## Artist

- Lifespan: 1795–1858
- Profession: painter
- School: Dutch

## Biography

Dutch painter, engraver, and book illustrator, active for almost all his career in Paris. His work was immensely popular in his lifetime, but is now generally considered sentimental. Early in his career he favoured literary themes \(Francesca da Rimini, Wallace Collection, London 1835, and other versions \), but later he turned to mawkishly treated religious subjects \(SS. Augustine and Monica, National Gallery, London, 1854, and other versions\). He also painted many portraits. His work is well represented in the museum at Dordrecht, his native town.

## Related artworks

- [Death of Gaston de Foix in the Battle of Ravenna on 11 April 1512](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/scheffer-ary-r11e30afda508de/death-of-gaston-de-foix-in-the-battle-of-ravenna-on-11-april-1512-r9b8df93f85a660>)
- [Faust and Marguerite in the Garden](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/scheffer-ary-r11e30afda508de/faust-and-marguerite-in-the-garden-r68586596bd4b3c>)
- [Greek Women Imploring for Assistance](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/scheffer-ary-r11e30afda508de/greek-women-imploring-for-assistance-r0535db49a26bca>)
- [Portrait of a Man at his Desk](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/scheffer-ary-r11e30afda508de/portrait-of-a-man-at-his-desk-rbef7b8566cb3fe>)
- [Portrait of Frédéric Chopin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/scheffer-ary-r11e30afda508de/portrait-of-frdric-chopin-r320d7c645c85bd>)
- [The Death of Géricault](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/scheffer-ary-r11e30afda508de/the-death-of-gricault-r604bf9cc91111a>)
- [The Ghosts of Paolo and Francesca Appear to Dante and Virgil](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/scheffer-ary-r11e30afda508de/the-ghosts-of-paolo-and-francesca-appear-to-dante-and-virgil-rc3bc89d1dcf071>)
- [The Ghosts of Paolo and Francesca Appear to Dante and Virgil](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/scheffer-ary-r11e30afda508de/the-ghosts-of-paolo-and-francesca-appear-to-dante-and-virgil-rf3b391db2c32dd>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)