Georges Michel (painter), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French painter
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Georges Michel (painter)
- Georges Michel (12 January 1763 – 7 or 8 June 1843) was a French landscape painter.
- An important precursor of the Barbizon school, Michel was practically unknown during his lifetime, and worked as copyist and restorer. Michel was born in Paris.
- His father was an employee at Les Halles, a large marketplace in the central part of the city.
- Michel's first patron, at a very early age, was a certain Monsieur de Chalue.
- His first painting teacher was one Leduc, a history painter, and later Michel studied under Nicolas-Antoine Taunay.
- Although he exhibited at the Paris Salon, he failed to achieve recognition and earned his living by working as copyist and restorer; he specialized in Dutch paintings and was helped in business by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun's husband. Most of Michel's work concentrates on rural landscapes in the area around Paris.
- He was influenced by Dutch landscape painters such as Jacob van Ruisdael and Meindert Hobbema.
- Michel worked in oil and watercolor with equal facility.
- He was forgotten for decades after his death; the first large exhibition of his work was presented by the Parisian Jean Charpentier hotel, in 1927.
- Today his works are found in museums around the world, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum, Vanderbilt University Gallery, Strasbourg Musée des Beaux-Arts, Victoria and Albert Museum, and many others.
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