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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Michel, Georges Creator Qualifier: Attributed to Creator Nationality: European; French Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: 1763 - 1843 Biography: Born in Paris in 1763, Georges Michel was a child of romanticism (Jean-Jacques Rousseau died in 1778). Even before Paul Huet (1803-1869), Decamps (q.v.), Daumier (q.v.), and all the other painters who formed the first generation of the School of Barbizon, Michel was the first to tackle the representation of nature free of aesthetic prejudices and unencumbered by pre-established rules learned in the workshop of some prestigious teacher. Of humble origin, Michel was very precocious not only in the apprenticeship of his craft but in his private life as well. Twelve years old when he entered the workshop of a professor of the Academy of Saint Luke, Michel often played truant to go and draw after nature in the Saint Denis plain. Married when he was sixteen, he was already the father of five children by the time he was twenty. After spending some time traveling in Switzerland and in Germany, he returned to Paris, where he met the Baron d'Ivry, an art lover who provided him with financial support, as he later did for Decamps. Around 1790 Michel met painter Lazare Bruandet (1755-1804), who was already working in the open air in the forest of Fontainebleau and who became a close friend. Their meeting would have important consequences for Michel's artistic evolution. Around 1800, the painter and art dealer Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun (1748-1813) commissioned him to reproduce landscapes by Jacob van Ruisdael (1628/29-1689), Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709), Rembrandt (1606-1669), as well as by several other Dutch painters. Vivant Denon, then director of the Louvre, called upon him to participate in the restoration of the Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Louvre's collection. Michel's work was greatly influenced by this close contact with the Old Masters at a time when the majority of the painters of his generation, artists like Xavier Bidauld (1758-1846), Bertin (q.v.), Nicolas Antoine Taunay (1755-1830), etc., were drawn to Italy. Michel never ventured further than the immediate surroundings of Paris. He once said that 'the person who is incapable of painting all his life within four leagues of space has no imagination, and in his search for a mandrake, will only find emptiness.'11. Sensier 1873, 21. Gender: M Creator Birth Place: Paris, 12 January 1763 Creator Death Place: Paris, 7 June 1843 Creator Name-CRT: Georges Michel Title: Landscape Near Paris Title Type: Primary View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1773 Creation End Date: 1843 Creation Date: not dated Object Type: Paintings Materials and Techniques: oil on fabric Dimensions: Unframed: 88.8cm x 129.5cm Inscriptions: Formerly signed and dated lower left (according to Minneapolis Institute of Arts, see note 2) AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 1975.78 Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html Provenance: Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (according to stamp on canvas). On commission from E. W. Rollins, Boston, to Knoedler & Co., New York, who sold it to Catholina Lambert, Paterson, N.J., 31 May 1888. His sale, New York, American Art Association, Plaza Hotel, 21-24 February 1916 (lot 170, repr.), Landscape, 35 x 51 in., $2,050. To Knoedler & Co., New York, on behalf of James J. Hill, who gave it to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1916. Sold to Victor D. Spark (dealer), New York, 1955. Padawer Galleries, New York, 1960. Jules Brassner, New York, 1974. Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin, Cleveland. Given to the CMA on 29 November 1975. AMICA ID: CMA_.1975.78 AMICA Library Year: 2001 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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