Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Landscape with Mill

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Landscape with Mill
Image View: 
Overall view with frame (cropped)
Creator: 
Georges Michel (French painter, 1763-1843)
Location: 
repository: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) Inv. no. (CTB.1999.105)
Location Note: 
Paseo del Prado, 8
GPS: 
+40.416111-3.695
Date: 
no date (other)
Cultural Context: 
French
Style Period: 
Nineteenth century
Work Type 1: 
painting (visual work)
Classification: 
Paintings
Material: 
oil paint on canvas
Technique: 
oil painting (technique)
Measurements: 
40 cm (height) x 52 cm (width)
Subjects: 
landscape; windmills
Description: 
Michel copied some Dutch 17th-century paintings in the 1780s, and towards 1790 he befriended the painter Lazare Bruandet, with whom he made his first trips to paint in the suburbs of Paris, which became the main subject of his oeuvre. Around 1800 he worked as a restorer of Flemish and Dutch paintings at the Louvre Museum, which enabled him to familiarize himself with the techniques of the great Dutch masters of the 17th century, such as Rembrandt, Ruisdael and Hobbema. However, Michel worked directly from nature and so anticipated the work of the later Barbizon School. Michel never signed his paintings by conscious decision. (Source: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum [website]; https://www.museothyssen.org/en/)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-MICHEL-TBM-LWM-A01
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.