Monticelli worked primarily in his native Marseille, painting romantic fantasies, landscapes, still lifes, and portraits. The texture of his painted surfaces, with their thick impasto, his rich coloring, and the heavy dabs of white that defined his stylistic technique paved the way for later artists such as van Gogh and Soutine.
Details
- Artist Name: Adolphe-Joseph-Thomas Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
- Title: Midsummer
- Date: 1860-1870
- Medium: Oil on panel
- Dimensions: 15-5/8 x 23-1/2 in. (39.7 x 59.7 cm)
- Credit Line: The Norton Simon Foundation, Gift of Mr. Norton Simon
- Accession Number: F.1983.13.P
- Copyright: © The Norton Simon Foundation
Object Information
[Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, stock no. 5558, sold 23 February 1955 to];
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., sold 10 April 1961 to;
[Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, stock no. 5969, sold 15 February 1980 to];
The Norton Simon Foundation.
French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
- Birmingham Museum of Art, 1973-02-10 to 1973-02-26
Monticelli: His Contemporaries, His Influence
- Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1978-10-27 to 1979-01-07
- Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1979-01-27 to 1979-03-11
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1979-04-21 to 1979-05-27
- Rijksmuseum, 1979-06-28 to 1979-09-02
Images of the Landscape, Barbizon and Impressionist Paintings from the Permanent Collection
- Norton Simon Museum, 1987-07-02 to 1989-10-29
A Revolution of the Palette: The First Synthetic Blues and their Impact on French Artists
- Norton Simon Museum, 2015-07-17 to 2016-01-04
- Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Monticelli: His Contemporaries, His Influence, 1978, no. 19, color pl. 5
- Brettell, Richard R. and Stephen F. Eisenman, Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum, volume 1, 2006,
- Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 1647 p. 431
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