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Michael, in golden armour and winged, treads on the neck of the Evil One, and raises his sword to strike; background, sinners tormented by serpents, and others passing before a burning city, whose glare and smoke fill the heavens. (Inferno, vii. 23, 24.) Painted in Perugia in 1504-5 (?). Belonged to Cardinal Mazarin; bought of his heirs for Louis XIV. Engraved by Agos. Veneziano; Cl. Duflos.—C. & C., Raphael, i. 204; Passavant, ii. 23; Müntz, 112; Cab. Crozat, i. Pl. 15; Landon, Musée, iv. Pl. 27.



MICHALLON, ACHILLE ETNA, born in Paris, Oct. 22, 1796, died there, Sept. 24, 1822. Landscape painter, son of the sculptor Claude Michallon, pupil of David, Valenciennes, Bertin, and Dunouy; won the grand prix in 1817, and a 2d class medal in 1812, when only sixteen; studied four years in Rome, and had scarcely returned when his promising career was cut short by death. Works: View of Saint-Cloud (1812); Sunset (1814); Sunrise (1817); Death of Roland, Lake of Nemi (1819); The Wetterhorn and Scheidegg Pass (1822); Landscape (1822), Louvre, Paris; Philoctetes Wounded in Isle of Lemnos (1822), Montpellier Museum; Œdipus and Antigone, View near Naples (Posthumous Exhibition, 1824).—Bellier, ii. 85; Ch. Blanc, École française, iii.


MICHAU, THEOBALD, born at Tournay in 1676, died in Antwerp, buried Oct. 27, 1765. Flemish school; landscape and figure painter, pupil in 1686 of Lucas Achtschellincx in Brussels, where he became master of the guild in 1698; entered the guild of Antwerp in 1710. Successfully imitated Peeter Bout; also took Teniers for his model. Works: Two River Landscapes, Madrid Museum; Landscape with Figures, Rotterdam Museum; Landscape with Cows and Sheep, Aschaffenburg Gallery; River Landscapes with Figures (4), Cattle Market, Village Kirmess, Augsburg Gallery; Landscape with Market, Brunswick Museum; Flemish Landscapes (2), Carlsruhe Gallery; Landscape, Cattle Market in a Village, Schleissheim Gallery; Winter Landscape with Skaters, Village Fair, Vienna Museum; Landscape, Bergamo Gallery; do., Caen Museum; do. (3), and Coast Views with Fish-*monger (2), Cardplayers before Inn, Nantes Museum.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 537; Michiels, x. 507; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 137; Van den Branden, 1197.


MICHEL, CHARLES HENRI, born at Fins (Somme), Jan. 15, 1817. History and portrait painter, pupil of Duhautty, and of the École des Beaux Arts. Medals: 3d class, 1861; medal, 1865, 1867. Works: Crucifixion (1859); Inner Conversion (1861); Christ the Source of Life (1865), Amiens Museum; Holy Communion (1866), Luxembourg Museum; Exiled of the Celestial Home (1868); Conversion of St. Augustine (1870); Christ and the Children (1875); Christ on the Cross (1876); Meditation on Death (1877); Patience, Humility (1878); Christ the Source of Life (1879); Glorification (1880); Temptation (1881); Entombment (1882); Humiliation of Christ (1883).—Bellier, ii. 87.


MICHEL, ERNEST BARTHÉLEMY, born at Montpellier, July 30, 1833. Genre painter, pupil of Picot and Cabanel; won the grand prix de Rome in 1860. A skilful young artist of great promise. Studio in Montpellier. Medal, 1870; L. of Honour, 1880. Works: Argus put to Sleep by Mercury (1865), Montpellier Museum; Daphne (1870), Angers Museum; La Pescivendola (1873); Decameron (1874); Fortune and Child, Young Girl in the Fields, Roman Peasants on the Steps of a Convent (1875); Lisa the Bohemian, The Doves (1876); St. Martin's Charity (St. Nicolas des Champs, Paris), Daphne (1878); Glorification (1880); Temptation (1881); Christ in the Tomb