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Adolphe Monticelli · вторая половина XIX века
Adolphe Monticelli: 1824–1886
Other names (14)
Adolphe A. Joseph Monticelli, Adolphe J. Montichelli, Adolphe Joseph Monticelli, Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, Adolph J. T. Monticelli, a.j. monticelli, a. j. th. monticelli, a.j.t. monticelli, Alphonse Monticelli, a. monticelli, a.t.f. monticelli, a.t.j. monticelli, Monticelli, monticelli a.t.j.
Biography
Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (14 October 1824 – 29 June 1886) was a French painter of the generation preceding the Impressionists.
Monticelli was born in Marseille in humble circumstances. He attended the École Municipale de Dessin in Marseille from 1842 to 1846 and continued his artistic training in Paris, where he studied under Paul Delaroche at the École des Beaux-Arts. In Paris, he made copies after the Old Masters in the Louvre and admired the oil sketches of Eugène Delacroix. In 1855 he met Narcisse Diaz, a member of the Barbizon school, and the two often painted together in the Fontainebleau Forest. Monticelli frequently adopted Diaz's practice of introducing nudes or elegantly costumed figures into his landscapes.
Monticelli developed a highly individual Romantic style of painting in which richly colored, dappled, textured and glazed surfaces produce a scintillating effect. He painted courtly subjects inspired by Antoine Watteau; he also painted still lifes, portraits, and Orientalist subjects that owe much to the example of Delacroix.
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Influenced by
- Eugène Delacroixeditorial inference
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Museums & collections
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- musée des beaux-arts — Marseille19 recorded works
- musée Grobet-Labadié — Marseille11 recorded works
- musée Cantini — Marseille10 recorded works
- Pinacoteca Ambrosiana10 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago6 recorded works
- Rijksmuseum6 recorded works
- National Gallery of Art5 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art4 recorded works
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris3 recorded works
- Musée du Louvre3 recorded works
- Minneapolis Institute of Art2 recorded works
- Dallas Museum of Art1 recorded work
- Finnish National Gallery1 recorded work
- musée Danicourt — Péronne1 recorded work
- musée d'Art Moderne — Troyes1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Lille1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Menton1 recorded work
- musée Estrine — Saint-Rémy-de-Provence1 recorded work
- musée Jean-Jacques Henner — Paris1 recorded work
- musée national du château de Compiègne — Compiègne1 recorded work
- musée Ziem — Martigues1 recorded work
- Musei Civici di Arte e Storia1 recorded work
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts1 recorded work
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art1 recorded work
- The Phillips Collection1 recorded work
- Walters Art Museum1 recorded work
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- Louvre painter identity and WikiArt profile links