Description
A pupil of Jacques-Louis David and of the landscape painter Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, Michallon was
the first to be awarded the Prix de Rome for historical landscape in 1817. He studied at the French Academy in Rome between 1818 and 1821; this view from Ingres’s famous studio sports a still life of the artist’s shaving equipment, hairbrush, and painter’s box.
View of the Villa Medici and Sta Trinità dei Monti from Ingres's Studio in the Pavillon San Gaetano, Rome
1819
Accession Number
183257
Medium
Graphite on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
28.6 × 27.5 cm (11 5/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
graphite
Credit Line
Regenstein Endowment
