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Ary Scheffer Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Ary Scheffer available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Ary Scheffer at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Marguerite Leaving Church, 1838
Dordrechts Museum, Netherlands (in Dutch) 
Many works online
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Death of Gaston de Foix in the Battle of Ravenna on 11 April 1512, ca.1824
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
6 paintings online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Gallery, London, UK
Mrs Robert Hollond
Saints Augustine and Monica
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)
Le jeune malade
Les femmes souliotes, 1827
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
The Royal Collection, London, UK
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
7 works by or related to the artist
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French)
L'Incendie - Scène d'exode
Museo Glauco Lombardi, Parma, Italy
Ritratto del duca di Orleans
Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
3 works online
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Greek Women Imploring at the Virgin of Assistance, 1826
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University
Portrait of the Comtesse de Tracy, 1818
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Christus Consolator, 1837
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Ary Scheffer at The Art Renewal Center
Ary Scheffer in the Web Gallery of Art 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Free Christ Images
Memory of the Netherlands Project
Great scans; use your mouse wheel to zoom in on the detail images
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Articles and Reference Sites:
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
La Tribune de l'Art (in French)
Les morts vont vite
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
New Discoveries: A Reduced Version of Ary Scheffer's Christ Consolator
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