The Haunted House
George A. Hearn Fund, 1937
Catalogue
- Year
- 1914
- Medium
- Oil on Masonite
- Dimensions
- 30 x 39 3/4 in. (76.2 x 101 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Louis Michel Eilshemius
Artist

Painting
Louis Michel Eilshemius was an American painter working primarily in oil on canvas, known for lyrical landscapes and figural compositions that combined romantic subject matter with an idiosyncratic, often dreamlike formal approach. Active in the early twentieth century, he worked largely independent of major artistic movements, developing a personal visual language marked by luminous color and an emphasis on mood over anatomical precision. His work remained relatively obscure during his lifetime but has since been reconsidered for its distinctive sensibility within American modernism.
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Record
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- Louis Michel Eilshemius
- Year
- 1914
- Medium
- Oil on Masonite
- Dimensions
- 30 x 39 3/4 in. (76.2 x 101 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1914-157039
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





