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and the Duchesse d'Orléans, to whom he was much attached. After attending the funeral of the latter he returned much broken to France, and shortly after died. In his earlier pictures Scheffer showed his sympathy with human suffering; in those of his second period his love for the elevating influences of the great poets; in his third his faith in the Christian religion, and his aspirations to a higher life. The works of his middle period, the Christ in the Garden (1839), the Macbeth, and the Francesca, are vigorous and deep in colour, while those of a later period, the Beatrice, the Temptation, etc., are pale and somewhat monotonous in tone. In both, however, there is a depth of feeling and a purity of sentiment which characterized the man no less than the painter. Officer of the Legion of Honour, 1825. Works: Abel and Thirza (1812); Death of St. Louis (1817); Convalescent Mother (1818), Pereire Collection, Paris; Patriotism of Six Citizens of Calais, Socrates defending Alcibiades at Potidea (1819); The Tempest (1820); Soldier's Widow (1821); Young Orphans; Christening; Burning of a Farm House; The Shades of Francesca da Rimini and her Lover appearing to Dante and Virgil (1821); St. Louis visiting the Plague-Stricken (1822); Seaman's Family (1823); Baptism (1823), King of the Belgians; Little Wood-*cutter; Return Home; Mother with Two Children mourning (1824), Königsberg Museum; War Scene in Alsace in 1814, Burial of young Fisherman (1824); Death of Géricault (1824), Louvre; St. Thomas Aquinas encouraging People in a Storm at Sea (1824), Church of St. Thomas, Paris; Gaston de Foix found among the Dead at Ravenna (1824), Versailles Museum; Greek Girls Praying to the Madonna, Last of the Missolonghi Garrison (1826); Suliote Women (1827), Eberhard the Weeper (1831), Louvre; Charlemagne submitting his first Capitularies to the Assembly of the Franks (1827), Charlemagne and Wittikind, Versailles Museum; Battle of Morat, Sister of Charity (1829); Leonora (1829); Faust in his Study, Marguerite at the Spinning Wheel (1831), Baroness Rothschild, Paris; Christ and the Children (1830, 1840); Martha and Marguerite (1830), King of the Belgians; The Duc d'Orléans (Louis Philippe) receiving the First Hussars (2, 1831), Versailles Museum; Marguerite at Church (1832), Samuel Ashton, London; The Giaour (1832); Medora (1833); Ahasuerus (1834); Francesca da Rimini (1834), Sir Richard Wallace, London; replica (1855), Mme. Marjolin Scheffer; Mignon regretting her Country (1836), Duchesse d'Ayen; Christus Consolator (1837), Museum Fodor, Amsterdam; Victory of Clovis at Tolbiac in 496 (1837); Marguerite leaving Church (1838), Samuel Ashton, London; The King of Thule (1838); Christ on Mount of Olives, Mignon aspiring to Heaven (1839), Duchesse d'Ayen; Charitable Child (1840), Nantes Museum; Annunciation to the Shepherds (1841); The Three Magi (1844), Princess Caroline Wittgenstein, Weimar; Mignon and the Harper (1844), Queen of England; Entombment, Mater Dolorosa (1845); Christ and the Holy Women, Christ bearing the Cross (1846); St. Augustine and St. Monica (1846), National Gallery, London; Faust and Marguerite in the Garden, Faust's Vision (1846), Samuel Ashton, London; The Holy Women returning from the Tomb (1847), Comte de Paris; Christus Remunerator (1847); Heavenly and Earthly Love, St. John writing the Apocalypse (1850); Magdalen in Ecstasy (1851); Ruth and Naomi (1855); St. Augustine and St. Monica (1855), Temptation of Christ (1856), Louvre; Jacob and Rachel, Ecce Homo, Christ and St. John, Kiss of Judas (1857); Faust with the Cup (1858), Count Kucheleff; Marguerite at the Fountain (1858), Sir Richard Wallace, London; Figure of Calvin (1858); The Earthly Sorrows rising to Heaven (1858, last work), Mme. Marjolin Scheffer; The Magdalen at the Foot of the Cross, Marseilles Museum; A Philosopher, Montpellier Museum; Death