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Landscape with Castle and Shepherds
Achille Etna Michallon1814
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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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- Title: Landscape with Castle and Shepherds
- Creator: Achille Etna Michallon (French, 1796-1822)
- Date Created: 1814
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 18.8 x 27 cm (7 3/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
- Provenance: [David and Constance Yates]
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.112
- Medium: brown ink and brown wash over graphite, heightened with white gouache
- Inscriptions: signed, lower left, in brown wash: Michallon Rome / 181[9?]
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Gift of Members of The Print Club of Cleveland in honor of the Club's seventy-fifth anniversary
- Collection: DR - French
- Accession Number: 1994.112
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