Beech Tree — Achille Etna Michallon

Beech Tree

Experience the golden light filtering through a graceful beech canopy in this 1817 landscape by Achille Etna Michallon; bring home this atmospheric Romantic masterpiece.


Achille Etna Michallon (1796 - 1822)

Achille Etna Michallon (1796-1822): French Romantic landscape painter of atmospheric Italian scenes & sketches. Influenced Corot & 19thC art. Explore his work!

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Michallon exhibited for the first time at the Paris Salon in 1812, at the age of sixteen, and he was awarded the inaugural Prix de Rome in the category of historical landscape painting in 1817; it is likely that this study dates to the period in between, when, as a pupil of Jean Victor Bertin, he was instructed to render individual trees. One characteristic feature is the way in which the sky is filtered by the tree canopy, limning the right edge of this graceful beech and its slender companions with golden light.