Michael, in golden armour and winged, treads on the neck of the Evil One, and raises his sword to strike; background, sinners tormented by serpents, and others passing before a burning city, whose glare and smoke fill the heavens. (Inferno, vii. 23, 24.) Painted in Perugia in 1504-5 (?). Belonged to Cardinal Mazarin; bought of his heirs for Louis XIV. Engraved by Agos. Veneziano; Cl. Duflos.—C. & C., Raphael, i. 204; Passavant, ii. 23; Müntz, 112; Cab. Crozat, i. Pl. 15; Landon, Musée, iv. Pl. 27.
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MICHALLON, ACHILLE ETNA, born
in Paris, Oct. 22,
1796, died there,
Sept. 24, 1822.
Landscape painter,
son of the
sculptor Claude
Michallon, pupil
of David, Valenciennes,
Bertin, and
Dunouy; won the
grand prix in 1817,
and a 2d class medal in 1812, when only
sixteen; studied four years in Rome, and
had scarcely returned when his promising
career was cut short by death. Works:
View of Saint-Cloud (1812); Sunset (1814);
Sunrise (1817); Death of Roland, Lake of
Nemi (1819); The Wetterhorn and Scheidegg
Pass (1822); Landscape (1822), Louvre,
Paris; Philoctetes Wounded in Isle of Lemnos
(1822), Montpellier Museum; Œdipus
and Antigone, View near Naples (Posthumous
Exhibition, 1824).—Bellier, ii. 85;
Ch. Blanc, École française, iii.
MICHAU, THEOBALD, born at Tournay
in 1676, died in Antwerp, buried Oct. 27,
1765. Flemish school; landscape and figure
painter, pupil in 1686 of Lucas Achtschellincx
in Brussels, where he became
master of the guild in 1698; entered the
guild of Antwerp in 1710. Successfully imitated
Peeter Bout; also took Teniers for his
model. Works: Two River Landscapes,
Madrid Museum; Landscape with Figures,
Rotterdam Museum; Landscape with Cows
and Sheep, Aschaffenburg Gallery; River
Landscapes with Figures (4), Cattle Market,
Village Kirmess, Augsburg Gallery; Landscape
with Market, Brunswick Museum;
Flemish Landscapes (2), Carlsruhe Gallery;
Landscape, Cattle Market in a Village,
Schleissheim Gallery; Winter Landscape
with Skaters, Village Fair, Vienna Museum;
Landscape, Bergamo Gallery; do., Caen Museum;
do. (3), and Coast Views with Fish-*monger
(2), Cardplayers before Inn, Nantes
Museum.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Kugler
(Crowe), ii. 537; Michiels, x. 507; Riegel,
Beiträge, ii. 137; Van den Branden,
1197.
MICHEL, CHARLES HENRI, born at
Fins (Somme), Jan. 15, 1817. History and
portrait painter, pupil of Duhautty, and
of the École des Beaux Arts. Medals: 3d
class, 1861; medal, 1865, 1867. Works:
Crucifixion (1859); Inner Conversion (1861);
Christ the Source of Life (1865), Amiens
Museum; Holy Communion (1866), Luxembourg
Museum; Exiled of the Celestial
Home (1868); Conversion of St. Augustine
(1870); Christ and the Children (1875);
Christ on the Cross (1876); Meditation
on Death (1877); Patience, Humility (1878);
Christ the Source of Life (1879); Glorification
(1880); Temptation (1881); Entombment
(1882); Humiliation of Christ (1883).—Bellier,
ii. 87.
MICHEL, ERNEST BARTHÉLEMY,
born at Montpellier, July 30, 1833. Genre
painter, pupil of Picot and Cabanel; won
the grand prix de Rome in 1860. A skilful
young artist of great promise. Studio in
Montpellier. Medal, 1870; L. of Honour,
1880. Works: Argus put to Sleep by Mercury
(1865), Montpellier Museum; Daphne
(1870), Angers Museum; La Pescivendola
(1873); Decameron (1874); Fortune and
Child, Young Girl in the Fields, Roman
Peasants on the Steps of a Convent (1875);
Lisa the Bohemian, The Doves (1876); St.
Martin's Charity (St. Nicolas des Champs,
Paris), Daphne (1878); Glorification (1880);
Temptation (1881); Christ in the Tomb
