Princess Marie d'Orléans in Her Studio (c. 1838): Art, History and Details

Princess Marie d'Orléans in Her Studio (c. 1838) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Ary Scheffer (Dutch, 1795–1858).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Scheffer frequently portrayed his favorite pupil, the Princess Marie d'Orléans (1813-1839), daughter of King Louis Philippe and a prominent sculptor. As proof of her dedication and talent, she wears an artist's smock and holds a chisel. Seen nearby are several of her works, including her model of her most famous sculpture, a stoic depiction of Joan of Arc.

Object facts

• Title: Princess Marie d'Orléans in Her Studio
• Date: c. 1838
• Creator attribution: Ary Scheffer (Dutch, 1795–1858)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on fabric
• Dimensions: Framed: 74 x 51.5 x 5.5 cm (29 1/8 x 20 1/4 x 2 3/16 in.); Unframed: 67.3 x 40.7 cm (26 1/2 x 16 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1977.119

Collection credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin

Further reading listed by the museum

• Zakon, Ronnie L. The Artist and the Studio in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
• Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1977.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65, no. 1 (January 1978): 2–42.
• Fusco, Peter, and H. W. Janson. The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from North American Collections. 1980.

View the collection record

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