
Cleveland Museum of Art
Landscape with Castle and Shepherds
Achille Etna MichallonLinkedCulture matchlcp-defc10c29c96
- Date
- 1814
- Medium
- brown ink and brown wash over graphite, heightened with white gouache
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 157235
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Members of The Print Club of Cleveland in honor of the Club's seventy-fifth anniversary
- Provenance
- [David and Constance Yates]
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