Updated November 2026 · ranked by our popularity score (searches, visits and orders for each work) · 81 works by Georges Michel in our catalogue
In short
Landscape (1835) is the Georges Michel painting that draws the most eyes. After it, the eye goes to The Mill (1835) and The Mill of Montmartre. Among the 81 works of Georges Michel in our catalog, these 80 are the most famous, each a unique original presented with its year, its museum and the reason it endures.
The scene unfolds within a cavernous, monochromatic space where the air feels heavy with steam and the scent of damp linen. This industrial laundry setting, captured in a black and white photograph, reveals a world of intense, repetitive labor from the late 19th or early 20th century. Two female workers move through the shadows, their presence dwarfed by the sheer scale of the machinery surrounding them. Massive, cylindrical washing drums…
A dark, silhouetted windmill occupies a steep, grassy bluff on the left, acting as a vertical anchor against a turbulent sky. Heavy, swirling clouds dominate the upper two-thirds of the composition, creating a sense of impending movement. Below the bluff, the landscape descends into a wide valley where a small body of water reflects the shifting light. Patches of illuminated fields and distant clusters of buildings emerge from the shadows,…
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century, Montmartre was a different world, a picturesque suburb of Paris where the skyline was defined by the slow rotation of windmills. This work captures a moment from that era, likely around 1820, when the landscape held a certain pastoral dignity. A large windmill with a prominent sail dominates the composition, positioned before the silhouette of a church. The scene is bathed in…
Group of three trees1810 · The Mesdag Collection
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Three Windmills1810 · The Mesdag Collection
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Landscape with Trees, Buildings and a Road1814 · National Gallery
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The windmill1810 · The Mesdag Collection
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Landscape1810 · The Mesdag Collection
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Approaching of the Storm1820 · Indianapolis Museum of Art
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La Plaine-Saint-Denis1820 · Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie
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Landscape with Heavy Shower1820 · Museum Gouda
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Storm: The Quarry at Montmartre1820 · Detroit Institute of Arts
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Landscape1820 · Yale University Art Gallery
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Landscape along the Seine River1821 · Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
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landscape1815
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The Storm1822 · Art Institute of Chicago
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The Plain of Saint Denis1820 · Йоркський художній музей
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The Storm1828 · Musée des Beaux-Arts
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Landscape near Paris1825 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
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Landscape with Windmill and a View of Montmartre1830 · Speed Art Museum
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View of the Hill of Montmartre (Before the Thunderstorm, ‘Avant l’Orage’)1830 · Museum Gouda
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Landscape of the surroundings of Paris (P2324)1830 · Carnavalet Museum
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Presumed View of Montmartre1830 · Carnavalet Museum
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Forest interior1825
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Montmartre1825 · Scottish National Gallery
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Windmills at Montmartre1825 · National Museum in Warsaw
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Thunderstorm Landscape1835
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La Plaine de Saint Denis1835 · National Gallery of Ireland
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Stormy Landscape with Ruins on a Plain1833 · National Gallery
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Herd Under the Storm1843 · Petit Palais
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Landscape Near Paris1840 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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Landscape with windmills
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Landscape with Mill
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The Mill of Montmartre1820
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Landscape with a Plowed Field and a Village1827 · Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Autumn LandscapeMusée Des Beaux
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Landscape with MillMusée des Beaux-Arts
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View of the Seine with a Stagecoach
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Windmills on the HeathNorfolk Museums
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Landscape with WindmillsMusée Des Beaux
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Landscape with GoatherdsAshmolean Museum
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Landscape with Fishermen at the Mouth of a RiverAshmolean Museum
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Storm near MontmartreLeeds Art Gallery
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Stormy Landscape
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Landscape with CottagesKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
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Moorland: The Storm CloudBurrell Collection
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LandscapeManchester Art Gallery
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LandscapeRhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
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LandscapeRhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
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Landscape with a windmillFitzwilliam Museum
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Approaching StormIndianapolis Museum of Art
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Windmill in a LandscapeAuckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
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Landscape with a WindmillMuseum of Fine Arts
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Castle in RuinsMuseum of Fine Arts
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Landscape with CloudsNationalmuseum
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MillVictoria and Albert Museum
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Landscape with a Mill with a View of MontmartreSpeed Art Museum
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landscape with mill
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La route tournante - Georges Michel - musée des Beaux-Arts de GaillacGaillac Museum of Fine Arts
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View of MeauxNational Museum Cardiff
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The Approaching Storm
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Landscape with FiguresVanderbilt Museum of Art
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Gathering stormWalters Art Museum
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Road in the countryside
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A Landscape with Fallen Trees
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LandscapeDayton Art Institute
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Route nearly a town
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An Extensive Landscape with a Stormy Sky
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An Extensive Landscape with Windmills
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Mills at MontmartreCarnavalet Museum
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The Storm over the Seine Valley1820 · Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
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Downpour on the Plain of Saint-Denis1820 · Musée Léon-Dierx
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ThunderstormMusée Des Beaux
The four subjects that come back most often in these originals, each with its finest example.
The 8 museums that hold the most of the paintings on this page.
| Museum | City | Works by Georges Michel | Paintings from this list |
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 Museum Gouda |
Gouda | 4 | Landscape with Figures and Cattle, Landscape with Sand Road, Landscape with Heavy Shower |
 The Mesdag Collection |
The Hague | 4 | Group of three trees, Three Windmills, The windmill |
 Carnavalet Museum |
Paris | 3 | Landscape of the surroundings of Paris (P2324), Presumed View of Montmartre, Mills at Montmartre |
 Victoria and Albert Museum |
London | 2 | The Mill, Mill |
 Scottish National Gallery |
Edinburgh | 2 | The Lime Kiln, Montmartre |
 National Gallery |
London | 2 | Landscape with Trees, Buildings and a Road, Stormy Landscape with Ruins on a Plain |
 Indianapolis Museum of Art |
Indianapolis | 2 | Approaching of the Storm, Approaching Storm |
 Speed Art Museum |
Louisville | 2 | Landscape with Windmill and a View of Montmartre, Landscape with a Mill with a View of Montmartre |
Pick a decade to see the original that defines it.
The scene unfolds within a cavernous, monochromatic space where the air feels heavy with steam and the scent of damp linen. This industrial laundry setting, captured in a black and white photograph, reveals a world of intense, repetitive labor from the late 19th or early 20th century. Two female workers move through the shadows, their presence dwarfed by the sheer scale of the machinery surrounding them. Massive, cylindrical washing drums…
Landscape (1835). The Mill (1835) and The Mill of Montmartre come next.
72 years old: Landscape dates from 1835, and Georges Michel was born in 1763.
Landscape, The Mill, The Mill of Montmartre, Landscape with Figures and Cattle, Landscape with Windmills, In the Environs of Montmartre, The Lime Kiln, Windmills, Landscape and Landscape with Sand Road. The ranking above gives each one's year and museum.
Our catalog holds 81 works by Georges Michel, dated from 1793 to 1843.
Mostly in Museum Gouda (Gouda), The Mesdag Collection (The Hague) and Carnavalet Museum (Paris). The museum table above lists them all.
In 1820s: 17 of the 80 works on this page were made then, Approaching of the Storm among them.
On this page, the earliest is Landscape with Windmills (1793) and the latest Herd Under the Storm (1843).
Landscape (5), Windmill (3) and Sky (3), across the 80 works on this page.
Romanticism, judging by the originals on this page.
Landscape with Figures and Cattle, Landscape with Sand Road and Landscape with Heavy Shower: the Museum Gouda, Gouda holds 4 of the works on this page.
