Georges Michel, Landscape Near Paris
Butkin, 1975.78 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Georges Michel

Landscape Near Paris

c. 1840

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
oil on fabric
Dimensions
88.8 × 129.5 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-110532

The location of this scene, probably near Paris, has not been identified with certainty. Unlike most painters of this time, Michel never traveled to Italy and focused only on depicting locations in France. Michel was always interested in Dutch art, however, and was nicknamed the "French Ruisdael"-a reference to the 17th-century Dutch landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael (1628-1682). After about 1808, Michel explored personal interpretations of landscape, focusing on light, sky, and space. The brooding, vaguely threatening atmosphere in this painting embodies the Romantic notion that human bei…

Provenance

Butkin, 1975.78

Registry history

  • c. 1840 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

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