André Michel (art historian)

Charles Paul André Michel (7 November 1853, Montpellier - 13 October 1925, Paris) was a French art historian.

While there, he also studied with Charles Blanc at the Collège de France, and Hippolyte Taine, at the École des Beaux-Arts.

He quit teaching to accept the position of assistant to Louis Courajod, curator of the Département des Sculptures at the Louvre.

[1] In 1918, he was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, where he took Seat #8 in the "Unattached" section; succeeding Louis de Fourcaud, who had died in 1914.

He left the Louvre in 1920 to become a professor of French art history at the Collège de France.