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Achille Etna Michallon

30 works held in 9 museums

French landscape painter, first Prix de Rome for historical landscape, Corot's teacher, 1796-1822

Forest Interior, Achille Etna Michallon

Forest Interior, before 1822.

Waldinneres (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on canvas

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany

Study of Plants, Achille Etna Michallon

Study of Plants, 1822.

Étude de plantes (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on paper adhered to canvas

Louvre Museum, France

Fireworks at the Castel Sant'Angelo, Achille Etna Michallon

Fireworks at the Castel Sant'Angelo, 1821.

Le feu d'artifice tiré du château Saint-Ange (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on paper adhered to canvas

Louvre Museum, France

Peasant Woman from the Environs of Rome, Achille Etna Michallon

Peasant Woman from the Environs of Rome, 1821.

Paysanne des environs de Rome (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on paper adhered to canvas

Louvre Museum, France

Waterfall at Mont-Dore, Achille Etna Michallon

Waterfall at Mont-Dore, 1818.

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on canvas

Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

The Moulin de la Cuve, Achille Etna Michallon

The Moulin de la Cuve, 1814–1816.

Le Moulin de la cuve (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on paper mounted on canvas

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims, France

The Temple of Segesta (Sicily), Achille Etna Michallon

The Temple of Segesta (Sicily), 1822.

Le temple de Ségeste (Sicile) (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on paper adhered to canvas

Louvre Museum, France

Landscape: Theseus Pursuing the Centaurs, Achille Etna Michallon

Landscape: Theseus Pursuing the Centaurs, 1821.

Paysage: Thésée poursuivant les Centaures (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on canvas

Louvre Museum, France

The Temple of Neptune at Paestum, Achille Etna Michallon

The Temple of Neptune at Paestum, 1821.

Le temple de Neptune à Paestum (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on paper adhered to canvas

Louvre Museum, France

Peasant Woman from the Environs of Rome, Achille Etna Michallon

Peasant Woman from the Environs of Rome, 1821.

Paysanne des environs de Rome (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on paper adhered to canvas

Louvre Museum, France

View of Santa Scolastica in Subiaco, Achille Etna Michallon

View of Santa Scolastica in Subiaco, 1818.

Vue de l'abbaye Sainte-Scholastique de Subiaco (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on paper mounted on canvas

Fondation Custodia, France

Trees in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, Achille Etna Michallon

Trees in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, c. 1812–1815.

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on paper mounted on canvas

Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Ravine at Sorrento, Achille Etna Michallon

Ravine at Sorrento, 1822.

Ravin de Sorrente (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on paper adhered to canvas

Louvre Museum, France

The Forum at Pompeii, Achille Etna Michallon

The Forum at Pompeii, 1821.

Le forum à Pompéi (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on paper adhered to canvas

Louvre Museum, France

Mountain Landscape with a Torrent, Achille Etna Michallon

Mountain Landscape with a Torrent, 1821.

Paysage de montagne traversé par un torrent (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on canvas

Louvre Museum, France

The Marmore Falls near Terni, Italy, Achille Etna Michallon

The Marmore Falls near Terni, Italy, 1820.

Marmorefallen vid Terni, Italien (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on canvas

Nationalmuseum, Sweden

The Woman Struck by Lightning, Achille Etna Michallon

The Woman Struck by Lightning, 1817.

La Femme foudroyée (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on canvas

Louvre Museum, France

View of the Colosseum in Rome, Achille Etna Michallon

View of the Colosseum in Rome, 1803.

Vue du Colisée à Rome (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on canvas

Louvre Museum, France

Sea View at Salerno, Achille Etna Michallon

Sea View at Salerno, 1822.

Vue de mer, à Salerne (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on canvas

Louvre Museum, France

The Waterfall (Tivoli), Achille Etna Michallon

The Waterfall (Tivoli), 1821.

La cascade (Tivoli) (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on canvas

Louvre Museum, France

Waves at the Foot of Rocks, Achille Etna Michallon

Waves at the Foot of Rocks, 1821.

Vagues au pied de rochers (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on paper adhered to canvas

Louvre Museum, France

Ruins of the Theatre at Taormina (Sicily), Achille Etna Michallon

Ruins of the Theatre at Taormina (Sicily), 1820.

Ruines du théâtre de Taormine (Sicile) (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on paper adhered to canvas

Louvre Museum, France

Goatherd Opposite the Falls of Tivoli, Achille Etna Michallon

Goatherd Opposite the Falls of Tivoli, c. 1817–1819.

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on canvas

Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, United States

Ruins in a Landscape, Achille Etna Michallon

Ruins in a Landscape, 1803.

Ruines dans un paysage (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on paper adhered to canvas

Louvre Museum, France

Man Draped in Red: an Inhabitant of Frascati, Achille Etna Michallon

Man Draped in Red: an Inhabitant of Frascati, 1822.

Homme drapé en rouge: habitant de Frascati (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on paper adhered to canvas

Louvre Museum, France

The Torrent (Tivoli), Achille Etna Michallon

The Torrent (Tivoli), 1821.

Le torrent (Tivoli) (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on canvas

Louvre Museum, France

View of a Grotto, Achille Etna Michallon

View of a Grotto, 1821.

Vue d'une grotte (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on paper adhered to canvas

Louvre Museum, France

The Forum at Pompeii, Achille Etna Michallon

The Forum at Pompeii, 1819.

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on paper

National Gallery of Art, United States

The Fallen Branch, Fontainebleau, Achille Etna Michallon

The Fallen Branch, Fontainebleau, c. 1816.

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on canvas mounted on cardboard

Minneapolis Institute of Art, United States

Study of a Fallen Tree, Achille Etna Michallon

Study of a Fallen Tree, 1800–1825.

Étude d'arbre couché (museum title)

Achille Etna Michallon (French), oil on paper adhered to canvas

Louvre Museum, France

Works by Achille Etna Michallon (1796-1822), in the public domain, each linked to the record of the museum that holds it. A pupil of Valenciennes and Bertin, Michallon won in 1817 the first Prix de Rome for historical landscape, created that very year. As a resident of the French Academy in Rome, he travelled through the Roman countryside, Tivoli, Naples, Pompeii, Paestum and Sicily, and painted from nature, in oil on paper, rocks, trees, torrents, ruins and figures of peasants, a large group of which is held at the Louvre. Back in Paris, he exhibited large historical landscapes, such as Theseus Pursuing the Centaurs, and taught the young Camille Corot, before dying at the age of twenty-six. Only works that the museums give to him without reservation, and of which a freely reusable photograph exists, are included; the origin of each photograph is given on the page of the work. The titles are those of the museums, with their translation.