MICHALLON (* 7^p ' / '-. / :, . Michael, in golden armour and winged, treads on the neck of the Evil One, and raises his sword to strike ; background, sin- ners tormented by serpents, and others pass- ing 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. Engi-aved by Agos. Venezi- ano; Cl. Duflos. C. & C., Raphael, i. 204 ; Passavaut, ii. 23 ; Miintz, 112 ; Cab. Crozat, i. PI. 15 ; Landon, Musi'e, iv. PI. 27. MICHALLON, ACHILLE ETNA, born in Paris, Oct. 22, 1796, Sept. died there, 24, 1822. Landscape paint- er, son of the sculptor Claude Michallou, p u p i 1 of David, Valenci- ennes, Bertiu, and / Dunouy ; won the J 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 Schei- degg Pass (1822); Landscape (1822), Louvre, Paris ; Philoctetes Wounded in Isle of Lem- nos (1822), Montpellier Museum ; (Edipus and Antigone, View near Naples (Posthu- mous Exhibition, 1824). Bellier, ii. 85 ; Ch. Blanc, ficole francaise, iii. MICHAU, THEOBALD, born at Tournay in 1676, died in Antwerp, buried Oct. 27, 1765. Flemish school ; landscape and fig- ure painter, pupil in 1686 of Lucas Acht- schellincx in Brussels, where he became master of the guild in 1698 ; entered the guild of Antwerp in 1710. Successfully imi- tated 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 ; Land- scape 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 Mu- seum ; do. (3), and Coast Views with Fish- monger (2), Cardplayers before Inn, Nantes Museum. Ch. Blanc, Ecole flamandc ; Kug- ler (Crowe), ii. 537 ; Michiels, x. 507 ; Rie- gel, Beitragc, ii. 137 ; Van den Brauden, 1197. MICHEL, CHARLES HENRI, born at Fins (Somme), Jan. 15, 1817. History and portrait painter, pupil of Duhautty, and of the Ecole 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), Lux- embourg 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) ; Glorifica- tion (1880) ; Temptation (1881) ; Entomb- ment (1882) ; Humiliation of Christ (1883). Bellier, ii. 87. MICHEL, ERNEST BARTHELEMY, born at Montpellier, July 30, 1833. Genre ' painter, pupil of Picot and Cabanel ; won the grand prix do Rome in 1860. A skilful young artist of great promise. Studio in Moutpellier. Medal, 1870 ; L. of Honour, 1880. Works : Argus put to Sleep by Mer- cury (1865), Montpellier Museum ; Daphne (1870), Augers Museum ; La Pescivcndola (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);
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