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TITLE:
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Landscape near Cava (formerly described as being of the Auvergne)
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CATEGORY:
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Paintings
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MATERIALS:
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Oil on canvas
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MARKINGS:
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Stamped with the artist’s monogram, M, lower right; inscribed on the reverse: Auvergne
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SIZE:
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13 3/4 x 19 in ; 35 x 48.5 cm
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REGION:
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Italian
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STYLE:
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Representational
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PRICE*:
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DESCRIPTION:
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The painting here was no doubt produced during the summer of 1814, when Michallon travel to Auvergne with the L’Espine family. During a stop in Vichy the family met the Duchess of Angoulême, recently returned from exile; Michallon executed a series of small paintings of her in the company of the L’Espine family, though the series whereabouts today is unknown. Also lost to us are all but a handful of Michallon’s sketches from Auvergne. The diversity of the region’s views moved Michallon and the artist is recorded as having done numerous studies on the trip. However, besides the sketch here, only two other oil on paper sketches are recorded, Vue prise en Auvergne d’une rivière coolant sous des arbes au pied d’un rocher (36 x 50 cm., location unknown) and the related Vue d’une cascade en Auvergne (49 x 38 cm., location unknown; both were recorded in the collection of Louis Philippe before their disappearance in February 1848.
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PROVENANCE:
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Private Collection, France
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LITERATURE:
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P. Caillau-Lamico, Achille Etna Michallon, in Pierre Miquel, Le paysage français au XIXe siècle, Éditions de la Martinelle, 1975, volume II, described and reproduced p. 78. Achille Etna Michallon, Vincent Pomarède, Museé du Louvre, Paris, Edition de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1994, cat. No. 85, p. 183. Achille Etna Michallon, catalogue de l’œuvre peint, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, October 1997, described and reproduced as no. 89, p. 140.
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