commander of the Legion of Honour in 1848, that is, after he had wholly withdrawn from the Salon. Shut up in his studio, he produced many paintings that were only exhibited after his death in 1858. The works first exhibited posthumously include Sorrows of the earth, and the Angel announcing the Resurrection, which he had left unfinished. By the time of his death, his reputation was damaged and was further undermined by the sale of the Paturle Gallery, which contained many of his most celebrated achievements: though his paintings were praised for their charm and facility, they were condemned for poor use of color and vapid sentiment. Friends and family At various times Maurice Sand, Scheffer, Charles Gounod, Hector Berlioz were in relationships with Pauline Viardot—in letters they claimed that they were in love with her. She wrote in one letter: She was married to Louis Viardot at 18 years old, when her husband was a director of an Italian opera house in Paris and a friend of Scheffer. Scheffer was a confidant of Pauline Viardot and a friend of her family until his death. In 1850 Scheffer became a French citizen and married Sophie Marin, the widow of General Marie Étienne François Henri Baudrand. Marin died in 1856. His younger brother Hendrik Scheffer, born in The Hague on 27 September 1798, was also a painter. Gallery See also Musée de la Vie Romantique, Hôtel Scheffer-Renan, Paris References Further reading External links Ary Scheffer at Art Renewal Center 1795 births 1858 deaths 19th-century Dutch painters Dutch male painters 19th-century French painters French male painters Artists from Dordrecht Dutch romantic painters French romantic painters Dutch portrait painters French portrait painters Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur French philhellenes Academic art Burials at Montmartre Cemetery People of Montmartre Romantic painters 19th-century French male artists 19th-century Dutch male artists