Landscape with Oak Trees

Expand

IIIFView PDF

Landscape with Oak Trees

Artist Georges Michel (French, 1763-1843)

Place of OriginFrance

Dateabout 1810-1820

DimensionsH: 31 1/2 in. (80 cm); W: 38 1/2 in. (97.8 cm)

MediumOil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1962.23

Not on View

Label TextBorn in Paris, which he rarely left, Georges Michel’s entire work consists of landscapes. In about 1800 he was commissioned by the Louvre to restore 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings, an experience influential on his own art. This landscape with a church spire and characteristic windmills was probably inspired by the countryside near Montmartre, which in the early 19th century was open land on the northern edge of Paris.Published ReferencesToledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, p. 111, pl. 217.Exhibition HistoryParis, Musee Carnavalet, Paris vu par les maitres de Corot a Utrillo, 1961, no. 78, repr.