Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011522About the Artwork
This landscape illustrates the sublime beauty of nature, a Romantic concept, but it also reflects the importance of classical training in Rome. Throughout the 19th century, artists flocked to Italy to study classical ruins and themes, as well as landscapes. Here, the castle evokes Northern Italian fortresses, and in the tradition of other French artists traveling to Rome, Michallon imbued his rendering of the Alps with great emotion.
Inscriptions
signed, lower left, in brown wash: Michallon Rome / 181[9?]
Provenance
[David and Constance Yates]
Exhibition history
French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Achille Etna Michallon (French, 1796–1822)
- Date
- 1814
- Medium
- brown ink and brown wash over graphite, heightened with white gouache
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 18.8 x 27 cm (7 3/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Members of The Print Club of Cleveland in honor of the Club's seventy-fifth anniversary
- Accession no.
- 1994.112
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