Landscape
Georges Michel, Landscape, ca. 1830, oil on canvas, Gift of Mrs. Lillian B. Ladd, public domain, 38.12
This work is not currently on view.
- Title
Landscape
- Artist
- 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
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.
- Exhibitions
1998 The Other Nineteenth Century Portland Art Museum