Corneille, Michel, the Elder
Corneille, Michel, the Elder
French painter, etcher, and engraver, b. in Orléans about 1601; d. at Paris, 1664. He was one of many who studied with that celebrated master, Simon Vouet, who exerted a despotic influence over the French School, and impressed his artistic personality so strongly on all his pupils. Michel devoted himself to historical paintings, and was one of the twelve original members of the Royal Academy at its foundation in 1648. He became its rector in 1656. He was an excellent colourist — in this more Venetian than French — and his early style resembled that of Simon Vouet; later his work had all the merits and all the faults of the post-Raphaelite, or decadent, “sweet”, school of Italian art, showing the far-reaching influence of the Carracci. He was long employed in the decoration of churches in Paris, his masterpiece being the celebrated “St. Paul and St. Barnabas at Lystra”, painted for the Cathedral of Notre-Dame. His etched and engraved work differed very little from that of the Carracci and of his two sons. It was chiefly reproductive. Notable examples are the “Murder of the Innocents”, after Raphael, and the “Virgin Suckling the Infant Jesus”, after Lodovico Carracci.
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MEYER, Geschichte der französischen Malerei (Leipzig, 1867); see, also, bibliography under CORNEILLE, MICHEL (the Younger).
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Corneille, Michel, the Elder
a French painter, was born at Orleans in 1603, and studied under Simon Vouet. He executed twelve large pictures for the churches, and was one of the twelve original members of the Royal Academy at Paris. Some of his works are, The Holy Family, with St. Elizabeth; The Murder of the Innocents; Christ Appearing to Magdalene, and The Virgin Suckling the Infant Jesus. He died at Paris in 1664. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.; Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.; Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.