Gezicht op de Butte: de molens

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hoogte 81 mm x breedte 104 mm

Art Historical Context

Georges Michel’s “Gezicht op de Butte: de molens” offers an intimate glimpse of the windmills that once crowned the buttes surrounding Paris. Created on paper measuring just 81 by 104 millimeters, the small drawing captures the rural character of Montmartre and neighboring heights during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when these elevations still served as sites for milling grain rather than the bustling neighborhoods they would become. Michel, active from 1763 to 1843, specialized in landscape views that celebrated the dramatic skies and modest structures on the city’s ou...

About the Artist

Georges Michel · 1763–1843

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