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Georges Michel, Landscape, ca. 1830, oil on canvas, Gift of Mrs. Lillian B. Ladd, public domain, 38.12

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Title

Landscape

Artist

Georges Michel (French, 1763-1843)

Date

ca. 1830

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions (H x W x D)

29 in x 40 in

Collection Area

European Art

Category

Paintings

Object Type

painting

Culture

French

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Lillian B. Ladd

Accession Number

38.12

Copyright

public domain

Terms

canvas

landscapes

oil paint

oil paintings

paintings

Description

Never achieving recognition in his lifetime, Georges Michel found employment as a restorer of Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Louvre Museum. He drew inspiration from the moody landscapes of the seventeenth-century masters, whose work he knew so well. Following their example, Michel chose scenes familiar to him, in this instance the countryside outside Paris. The dominance of the storm-swept sky over the panorama of cultivated land, another hallmark of earlier Dutch painting, lends brooding grandeur to an otherwise ordinary view. Michel was eventually to be hailed as the precursor of the Barbizon school of landscape painting.

History
Exhibitions

1998 The Other Nineteenth Century Portland Art Museum

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