Théobald Michau
River landscape with travellers and cattle, a town beyond
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December 2, 01:01 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Théobald Michau
Tournai 1676–1765 Antwerp
River landscape with travellers and cattle, a town beyond
signed lower left: T. Michaü
oil on oak panel
unframed: 36.5 x 46.7 cm.; 14⅜ x 18⅜ in.
framed: 53.4 x 63.1 cm.; 21 x 24⅞ in.
Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Sotheby's, 15 April 1999, lot 15, for £128,000;
Where acquired.
Apprenticed in Brussels to the landscape painter Lucas Achtschellinck (1626–1699), Théobald Michau was made Master of the Guild there in 1698 and was elected a member of the Guild of Antwerp in 1710. This scene is painted with all the minute attention to detail and brilliant colouring characteristic of Michau's style. Although executed more than a century later, his works still show a conspicuous debt to the designs of Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568–1625) and Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601–1678), whose river landscape compositions show close parallels to this work.
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