Achille Etna Michallon

LOT 61 ACHILLE ETNA MICHALLON PARIS 1796 - 1822 VUE DU LAC MAJEUR [ ACHILLE ETNA MICHALLON ; VIEW OF LAKE MAGGIORE ; BEARS AN INSCRIPTION ON THE REVERSE MICHALLON, VUE DU LAC MAJEUR ; OIL ON PAPER LAID DOWN ON CANVAS] 25,000—35,000 EUR measurements 28,5 x 40 cm ; 11 1/4 by 15 3/4 in

LOT 339 ACHILLE ETNA MICHALLON PARIS 1796 - 1822 LANDSCAPE WITH A VIEW OF FRASCATI 40,000—60,000 USD measurements measurements note 14 3/4 by 18 3/4 in.; 37.5 by 47.7 cm. Description oil on canvas CATALOGUE NOTE This painting is a preparatory sketch for the large painting byMichallon which was exhibited at the Salon of 1822 and is now inthe Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no. 6633). The figure of thepeasant in a red cap standing amongst the group at center is basedon a small figural sketch done by the artist in 1820 of Mazzocchi,a well known Roman brigand (Musée d'Art et d'Histoire,Neuchâtel). The present lot is accompanied by a certificate from BlandineLesage stating that this painting will be included in thesupplement to her catalogue raisonné on the works of Michallon.

Achille-Etna Michallon (Paris 1796-1822)
View of the Tiber, Rome
Add. Notes: inscribed (?) 'pres le Pont St ange à Rome' and with inscription 'par michallon' (verso) black lead, brown wash, watermark VAN DER LEY 10 x 16 7/8 in. (255 x 427 mm.)
Notes: A circular drawing of The Judgment of Paris by the elder Pieter de Jode, executed in the same technique, was sold at Christie's, London, 7 July 1998, lot 274. Another circular drawing also in the same technique and with almost the same dimensions is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, III, The Hague, 1987, no. 47). A third, representing Moses and the Brazen Serpent, is in the Institut Néerlandais, Paris (K.G. Boon, The Netherlandish and German Drawings of the XVth and XVIth Centuries of the Frits Lugt Collection, Paris, 1992, I, p. 233, no. 130, pl. 273).
Pre-lot Text: FROM A SWISS PRIVATE COLLECTION

ACHILLE ETNA MICHALLON (1796-1822) - PEASANTS GATHERING FRUIT, NEAR NAPLES -
Mis: 7 1/2 by 10 3/4 in; 190 by 273 mm
signed and dated lower left: Michallon 1822 pen and brown ink and wash over traces of black chalk

PROVENANCE
Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis

EXHIBITED
New York, Shepherd Gallery, From Arcadia to Barbizon: A Journey in French Landscape Painting, 1987-1988

Achille Etna Michallon (Italian, 1796-1822) A Valley in the Alban Hills with Travelers on a Road, a view of the Chigi Palace and Santa Maria dell'Assunta beyond signed 'Michallon' (lower right) oil on canvas 29¾ x 39¼ in. (74.3 x 99.7 cm.) Provenance Gaivac collection, Paris. with Julius H. Weitzner, New York by 1959. Private collection. Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 5 June 2002, lot 61. Lot Notes Despite his premature death at the age of twenty-six, Achille Etna Michellon's artistic legacy includes an impressive group of drawings and paintings dominated by Poussinesque landscapes of the French and Italian countryside. He studied with Jacques-Louis David, Pierre Henri de Valenciennes and later Jean-Victor Bertin. Although few of works are dated, Michallon was known to be exhibiting paintings at the Salon at the age of sixteen. In 1817, the the age of twenty-one Michallon won the prestigious Prix de Rome for Démocratie et les Abdéritains. Michallon left for Rome in 1818 at the same time as Léon Cogniet, a newly-found friend. Although there are few accounts to document the precise record of his journey, he made prolific sketches of the Roman countryside and travelled further south through Southern Italy and Sicily sketching architectual ruins and single figure studies. It is most certainly during this Italian sojourn that Michallon painted the present picture. There is a very picturesque element to his compositions which are carefully balanced and pleasing to the eye. In the present work, Santa Maria dell'Assunta is visible in the right background, situated atop the hills of Ariccia, a church commissioned by Pope Alexander VII and designed by Gian-Lorenzo Bernini.