Cornélia Scheffer

Francès Cornelia Marjolin-Scheffer (29 July 1830 – 20 December 1899) was a French artist and designer, notable for her drawings, ceramics and sculptures.

In her birth registration, her father stated her mother's name as "Maria Johanna de Nes",[2] but this is traditionally held to be a pseudonym for an anonymous woman of royal descent.

She spent much time at her father's studio on rue Chaptal in the Nouvelle Athènes in Paris, a district much-frequented by artists.

Her father's brother Arie Johannes Lamme painted her sitting at a piano in the small studio.

She died in Paris on 20 December 1899 and was buried there in the family grave at the cimetière de Montmartre.

Cornélia Scheffer and Joseph Mezzara, Monument to Ary Scheffer (1862), Dordrecht