Tournai 1676 – Antwerp 1765
Landscape with a Village near a River
Signed ‘Michau‘ | Lower middle
Oil on copper
H. 15,4 cm. W. 21,6 cm.
PROVENANCE
Private collection
CATALOGUE NOTE
This particularly fine work on copper is a characteristic landscape by the Walloon born master Théobald Michau. This anecdotal landscapes with atmospheric perspective in blue and green heavily reliant on and continue the tradition of landscape painting begun by Jan Brueghel the Elder. Michau continued this Flemish landscape tradition, combined with the genre tradition of David Teniers the Younger.