The Four Seasons: Winter
Theobald Michau (Tournai 1676- Antwerp 1765)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1696 - 1765
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
813 x 914 mm (32 x 36 in)
Place of origin
Flanders
Order this imageCollection
Ardress House, County Armagh
NT 247866
Caption
This is the fourth in a set of the four seasons pictures at Ardress House. It is signed by the rare Flemish artist who specialised in such genre scenes. The waterway is frozen and many of the figures are wearing skates. A large lone bird wafts through the palpably cold winter sky.
Summary
Oil painting on panel, The Four Seasons: Winter by Theobald Michau (Tournai 1676- Antwerp 1765), signed: Michau. This artist, who worked mainly in Brussels, is relatively little known. This picture is one of a set of the four seasons, see NT 247864, 247865, 247867.
Provenance
on loan from Earl Castle Stewart
Credit line
Ardress House, The Castle Stewart Collection
Marks and inscriptions
Michau (signed) Back of frame: Label on back of frame, reads 'E.Stacy-Marks Ltd. 120-122 Terminus Road Eastbourne, Print Sellers, Picture Frame Designers, Manufacturers and Gilders, Oil Painters.....'
Makers and roles
Theobald Michau (Tournai 1676- Antwerp 1765), artist