Painting ID:: 88749
Greek Women Imploring at the Virgin of Assistance 1826(1826)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 65 x 55 cm (25.6 x 21.7 in)
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Ary Scheffer Dordrecht 1795-Argenteuil 1858
Dutch painter, sculptor and lithographer, active in France. He became a French citizen in 1850. He received his earliest training in the studio of his parents, Johann-Bernhard Scheffer (1764-1809) and Cornelia Scheffer (1769-1839), who were both artists, as was his brother Henri Scheffer (1798-1862). He then attended the Amsterdam Teeken-Academie (1806-9). At the first Exhibition of Living Masters in Amsterdam in 1808 he showed Hannibal Swearing to Avenge the Death of his Brother Hasdrubal Greek Women Imploring at the Virgin of Assistance 1826(1826)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 65 x 55 cm (25.6 x 21.7 in)
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