Beech Tree
Oil On Canvas- WallArt
- Romantic Landscape Painting
1817- 19th Century
36.0 x 29.0 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Achille Etna Michallon (1796 – 1822)
Achille Etna Michallon (1796-1822): French Romantic landscape painter of atmospheric Italian scenes & sketches. Influenced Corot & 19thC art. Explore his work!
Metropolitan Museum of Art (new york, United States of America)
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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.
About this artwork
- Title: Beech Tree
- Artist: Achille Etna Michallon
- Year: 1817
- Original dimensions: 36.0 x 29.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Copyright status: Public domain
- Where to see it: Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Movement: Romantic Landscape Painting
- Medium type: WallArt
- Main color: Phthalo Green
Quick Facts
- Notable elements or techniques: Filtered sky; Golden light
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Artistic style: Atmospheric landscape
- Artist: Achille Etna Michallon
- Movement: Romanticism
- Subject or theme: Forest scene
- Dimensions: 36 x 29 cm
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