He traveled to Paris, encouraged and supported by De Nittis, by the patron Beniamino Rotondo, and by the art merchant Reutlinger.

The next year in Paris, he exhibited Springtime and Love, a depiction of families enjoying a hilltop above a village with a broad view of the sea and sky.

Gubernatis remarks on the vivaciousness of these works, and says: To some it seemed that the success of Naples had intoxicated the mind of the young artist, and they bitterly deplored that having been led astray in search of the strange and far-fetched, he had suffered shipwreck in the indecipherable.

Everywhere there was exaggeration, and Michetti had abandoned himself to his flaws, his enthusiasm as a colorist resulting in a display that often bordered on the Baroque, so that sometimes the thrill of his palette convulsed the criteria of the artist.

But alongside these defects were revealed most positive qualities: the feeling and poetry of the real, unlike many others, even among the best, who do not see anything beyond their given direction of art, beyond the school with which they are affiliated.

[6] While he lived at a picturesque Francavilla al mare, and is known for his genre and pastoral scenes, his output included historic and religious themes.