Michallon, Achille-Etna

Achille-Etna Michallon 1796 – 1822

Michallon was a prodigiously talented artist who tragically died at the very young age of 25. He was the son of a sculptor and studied under Jacques-Louis David and Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes. In 1817, he won the Prix de Rome for landscape painting. He studied in Italy for two years but died of pneumonia before he could develop what he had learned.

Achille-Etna Michallon – The Prodigious Painter

Landscape inspired by the View of Frascati by Achille-Etna Michallon
Waterfall at Mont-Dore by Achilles-Etna Michallon, 1818. Oil on canvas. The Met, New York, USA
Éruption du Vésuve, la nuit by Achille-Etna Michallon 1822. Oil on paper mounted on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France
La Femme Foudroyée by Achille-Etna Michallon
Goatherd Opposite the Falls of Tivoli by Achille-Etna Michallon, 1819. Oil on canvas. Currently housed by Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA