Achille Etna Michallon

Achille Etna Michallon ( born October 22, 1796 in Paris, † September 24, 1822 in Paris) was a French painter and one of the most famous landscape painters of his time.

Life

Achille Etna Michallon was born on 22 October 1796 as son of the sculptor Claude Michallon ( 1751-1799 ) in Paris. After he had early lost his father and his mother in 1813, he was raised by his uncle - the sculptor Guillaume Francin ( 1741-1830 ). Also Michallon inclined to the arts and began painting training as a student of Jacques -Louis David (1748-1825) and Pierre -Henri de Valenciennes ( 1750-1819 ).

In 1817 he won with his painting " Democritus and the Abderites " the first scholarship for landscape painting of the Prix de Rome and studied from 1818 for more than two years at the French Academy in Rome ( Académie de France à Rome ). He also traveled to the southern Italian Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and attended, among others, Pompeii and Sicily.

In 1821 Michallon back to Paris and gave painting lessons themselves - among his pupils to Jean- Baptiste Camille Corot have been. Among the admirers of his art were several important figures - including Duchess Maria Carolina de Berry ( 1798-1870 ). Achille Etna Michallon died on September 24, 1822 at the age of only 26 years in Paris from pneumonia.

Gallery

" The decision taken by the lightning woman " ( " La femme foudroyée " )