Background
Michau was born in Tournai and was a pupil of Lucas Achtschellinck.
Michau was born in Tournai and was a pupil of Lucas Achtschellinck.
Michau painted designs and perhaps provided full-scale cartoons for tapestry weavers, for surviving records of the Brussels tapestry workshop of Pieter van der Borcht record Teniers peints par le fameux Senior Michau, such Teniers-like subjects painted by "the famous Sieur Michau". Among his work, on wooden or copper panels, in public collections are the Summer and Winter landscapes in Vienna. Michau died in Antwerp.
Among his pupils was Martin J. Geeraerts, who specialized in painted bas-reliefs en camaïeu.