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Landscape with Castle and Shepherds
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About this work
This landscape illustrates the sublime beauty of nature, a Romantic concept, but it also reflects the importance of classical training in Rome. Throughout the 19th century, artists flocked to Italy to study classical ruins and themes, as well as landscapes. Here, the castle evokes Northern Italian fortresses, and in the tradition of other French artists traveling to Rome, Michallon imbued his rendering of the Alps with great emotion.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineLandscape with Castle and Shepherds, 1814. Achille Etna Michallon (French, 1796–1822). Brown ink and brown wash over graphite, heightened with white gouache ; sheet: 18.8 x 27 cm (7 3/8 x 10 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Members of The Print Club of Cleveland in honor of the Club's seventy-fifth anniversary, 1994.112
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