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| Keywords: Georges Michel - Gathering Storm - Walters 371991.jpg 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 between 1830 1839 Oil on canvas cm 42 2 72 6 accession number 37 1991 22085 The George A Lucas Collection Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Maryland Institute College of Art Baltimore May 9 1910 by bequest Henry Walters as executor Walters Art Museum 1996 by purchase Museum purchase with exchange funds from the gifts of Mrs T Willing Balch Mrs Ludlow Baldwin Mrs Joseph Bryan III Gabriele Bruck Misses Elizabeth L and Louise M Clark Mrs Denison Frick Mr David R Harrison Mrs Frances W Haussner The Haussner Family Limited Partnership Mr Martin Horowitz Mrs Jane Lipman in memory of Leroy and Elizabeth Lipman the estate of Rita Lowenstein Mrs Thelma Pierce Sara D Redmond Harriet Rowland Louis E Shecter Mrs Henriette Stevens James and Jean Tebay and William C Whittridge and the bequests of Miss Laura F Delano Laura Delano Eastman Mrs Ruth Mangels Wineholt Eppler Mr Stephen Glazer Mr Philip B Perlman Mary Saunders Ward Mrs Frances Eaton Weld and H Morris Whitehurst 1996 2008 Before Monet Landscape Painting in France and Impressionist Masters Highlights from The Walters Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998 The Road to Impressionism Landscapes from Corot to Manet The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2004-2005 The Road to Impressionism Barbizon Landscapes from the Walters Art Museum The Dixon Gallery and Gardens Memphis; The Frick Art Historical Center Pittsburgh 2008-2009 place of origin Ville de Paris France Walters Art Museum license 2D Georges Michel Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review French paintings in the Walters Art Museum 1830s paintings from France | ||||
