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Beech Tree

by 1817
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 805
Michallon exhibited for the first time at the Paris Salon in 1812, at the age of sixteen, and he was awarded the inaugural Prix de Rome in the category of historical landscape painting in 1817; it is likely that this study dates to the period in between, when, as a pupil of Jean Victor Bertin, he was instructed to render individual trees. One characteristic feature is the way in which the sky is filtered by the tree canopy, limning the right edge of this graceful beech and its slender companions with golden light.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Beech Tree
  • Artist: Achille-Etna Michallon (French, Paris 1796–1822 Paris)
  • Date: by 1817
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 14 1/4 x 11 3/8 in. (36.2 x 28.9 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Thaw Collection, Jointly Owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2009
  • Object Number: 2009.400.85
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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View of Castel Nuovo, Naples
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A View of the Tiber from the North Bank, with the Temple of Vesta, the Campanile of S. Maria in Cosmedin and the Ponte Rotto, Achille-Etna Michallon French, Brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk. Framing lines in pen and brown ink.
A View of the Tiber from the North Bank, with the Temple of Vesta, the Campanile of S. Maria in Cosmedin and the Ponte Rotto
Achille-Etna Michallon
1819
Oxcart Approaching a Fortified Building, Achille-Etna Michallon French, Point of brush and brown wash, over graphite
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Achille-Etna Michallon
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Waterfall at Mont-Dore, Achille-Etna Michallon French, Oil on canvas
Waterfall at Mont-Dore
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Trees in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, Achille-Etna Michallon French, Oil on paper, laid down on canvas
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