Michel became acquainted with dutch 17th-century landscape painting when he was employed as a restorer by the louvre museum at the beginning of the 19th century. He was an important precursor of the barbizon artists. He became a landscape painter and worked in the vicinity of paris, especially near montmartre and on the plains of st. Denis to the north. Observing the landscape from a height-he was probably seated on a hilltop-michel has painted a flat, panoramic view with a low, heavy sky threatening a storm. This painting exhibits the broad, lyrical brushstrokes and sharp contrasts in light and shadow that characterized his mature style of the 1830s. Object Type: painting. Date: between 1830 and 1839 (?). Place of creation: Ville de Paris, France. Dimensions: height: 42.2 cm (16.6 in); width: 72.6 cm (28.5 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Walters Art Museum. Georges Michel - Gathering Storm - Walters 371991
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