Ary Scheffer, The Retreat of Napoleon’s Army from Russia in 1812, 1826. Oil on canvas. Yale University Art Gallery, Purchased with a gift from Richard L. Feigen, B.A. 1952, and the Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund

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Ary Scheffer, The Retreat of Napoleon’s Army from Russia in 1812, 1826. Oil on canvas. Yale University Art Gallery, Purchased with a gift from Richard L. Feigen, B.A. 1952, and the Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund

REFERENCES

The literature on Ary Scheffer in English is scant, but L. J. I Ewals’s encyclopedia entry is useful.

Since the recent rediscovery of the "Napoleon" painting, only a brief study of it has appeared—the article by Karen Serres—but it is excellent.

Petra ten-Doesschate Chu’s survey of the period in France on the painting is excellent.
 

Ewals, L. J. I.“Ary Scheffer.” In Grove Art Online
 

Serres, Karen. “Ary Scheffer’s ‘The Retreat of Napoleon’s Army from Russia.’” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2012): 107–11.

Chu, Petra ten-Doesschate. Nineteenth-Century European Art. New York: Prentice Hall, 2003: 203–23.