MICHEL, Georges
(b. 1763, Paris, d. 1843, Paris)

Mill in a Landscape

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Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 75 x 105 cm
Private collection

Michel developed a personal vision, in which light and treatment of the sky and space became his principal concern. His paintings became more unified compositionally, with vast expanses of landscape and wide perspectives under stormy skies. The windmills are often the sole accents punctuating the compositions.