About the Artwork
Storm: The Quarry at Montmartre
between 1820 and 1840
Georges Michel
1763-1843
French
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 28 1/2 × 39 3/8 inches (72.4 × 100 cm) Framed: 36 × 46 1/2 × 2 1/8 inches (91.4 × 118.1 × 5.4 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Walker
79.188
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Henry T. Chapman, Jr. (New York, New York, USA). April 16, 1888, sold by (American Art Galleries, New York, New York, USA) auction H.T. Chapman, Jr., lot 158
Irene and Solomon R. Guggenheim (New York, New York, USA)
November 7, 1962, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) Guggenheim auction, lot 124
purchased by Graham
June 19, 1963, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) lot 28
1963-1965 purchased by Julius Weitzner (London, England and New York, New York, USA)
November 24, 1965 sold by (Parke-Bernet, New York, New York, USA) lot 27
1965, purchased by Marie & Bernard F. Walker (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1979-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bénézit, E. Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs. Paris, 1976, pp. 387-388, p. 388.
Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 58, no. 4 (1980): p. 196 (fig. 16).
Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art, et al. Tokyo, 1989, pp. 82, 216-217, cat. 50 (ill.).
Wissman, F.W. European Vistas: Cultural Landscapes. Detroit, 2000, p. 79 (ill.).
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Georges Michel, Storm: The Quarry at Montmartre, between 1820 and 1840, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Walker, 79.188.
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