Jules Théophile Schuler was a French painter and illustrator in the Romantic style. He gave his name to an art award established in 1938.
Portrait of Schuler with his dates of birth and death
The Time Demon. Illustration from Jules Verne's Master Zacharius
Recalling the Black Forest (Cabinet des estampes et des dessins, Strasbourg)
Erwin von Steinbach (1846, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg)
Master Zacharius, or the clockmaker who lost his soul is an 1854 short story by Jules Verne. The story, an intensely Romantic fantasy echoing the works of E. T. A. Hoffmann, is a Faustian tragedy about an inventor whose overpowering pride leads to his downfall.
Illustration by Théophile Schuler