![Ary Scheffer - Saints Augustine and Monica [1854] by Gandalf's Gallery](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_ucbM1EfhAZfJMvZbFjKrTLgXXcBxztAdzz3G_VsoO_qi0LvYPuJfSpy0iH_4OZuicyR17lM__uxWXQ7fSMgaanekDUNT0N00HwsCHyapej8xhtbQ8SILSXhUJ58GITsjw=s0-d)
The subject is taken from Saints Augustine's Confessions, and depicts Saint Augustine and his mother Saint Monica discussing the Kingdom of Heaven. Shortly afterwards Saint Monica died. This is one of several replicas of Scheffer's most popular picture. The original, finished about 1845, showed the painter's own mother as the model for Saint Monica.
Ary Scheffer was born in Dordrecht and taught by his father, J. B. Scheffer. He was in Paris in 1811, where he studied under Guérin. He exhibited at the Salon from 1812. He was an illustrator, painter and engraver. He was popular in France for his portraits and history paintings.
[Oil on canvas, 135.2 x 104.8 cm]
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