Landscape with a Water Mill
Medium
Lithograph on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 19.3 × 25.9 cm (7 5/8 × 10 1/4 in.); Sheet: 25.7 × 36 cm (10 1/8 × 14 3/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
39789
Art Historical Context
**Landscape with a Water Mill** (1817) by Achille Etna Mich captures the serene beauty of a rural scene, featuring a water mill nestled amid lush greenery and flowing water. Created when Michallon was just 21, this lithograph on ivory wove paper (image: 19.3 × 25.9 cm) exemplifies the young artist's passion for. A pupil of Neoclassical master Jacques-Louis David, Michallon plein-air sketching and precise observation of light and atmosphere, bridging Neoclassicism and the emerging Romantic movement in early 19th-century France. Lithography, a revolutionary printing technique invented just two ...