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Adolphe Monticelli
Adolphe Monticelli

Adolphe Monticelli

French, 1824-1886
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Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli 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.

He 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.

After 1870, Monticelli returned to Marseille, where he would live in poverty despite a prolific output, selling his paintings for small sums. An unworldly man, he dedicated himself singlemindedly to his art.

The young Paul Cézanne befriended Monticelli in the 1860s, and the influence of the older painter's work can be seen in Cézanne's work of that decade. Between 1878 and 1884 the two artists often painted landscapes together, once spending a month roaming the Aix countryside. Although Monticelli experimented briefly around 1870 with a treatment of light reflecting the discoveries of the Impressionists, he found the objectivity of this approach uncongenial.

Confronted with criticism of his style of painting Monticelli himself remarked, "I paint for thirty years from now". His work reached its greatest spontaneity in the decade before his death in 1886.

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Women in a forest

Women in a forest (1870 - 1886)

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Figurative
Figures in a Park

Figures in a Park (1880-1883)

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Figurative
La Leçon

La Leçon

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Figurative
Trois femmes sous les arbres

Trois femmes sous les arbres (1870-1880)

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Figurative
Réunion dans un parc au temps des Valois

Réunion dans un parc au temps des Valois (1874)

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Figurative
Portrait de François Ziem

Portrait de François Ziem (1852-1853)

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Figurative
La conversation interrompue.

La conversation interrompue. (19th Century)

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Figurative
Landschap met bloeiende boomgaard

Landschap met bloeiende boomgaard (1870 - 1886)

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Landscape
Figures near a Fountain

Figures near a Fountain (c. 1870 - c. 1886)

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Landscape
Coastal Mountains

Coastal Mountains (1870 - 1880)

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Landscape
The Farewell

The Farewell

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Figurative
Aan het altaar

Aan het altaar (1870 - 1886)

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Figurative
Paysage animé de petits personnages

Paysage animé de petits personnages (circa 1867)

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Landscape
Le concert

Le concert

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Figurative
La fillette à la chèvre

La fillette à la chèvre (1851)

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Figurative
Personnages de Faust

Personnages de Faust (1872-73)

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Figurative
Liebesreigen in Parklandschaft

Liebesreigen in Parklandschaft

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Figurative
Still Life With Fruit And Wine Jug

Still Life With Fruit And Wine Jug (1874)

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Still Life
six bathers

six bathers

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Figurative
Fête Champetre ‘La Fontaine de Jouvence’

Fête Champetre ‘La Fontaine de Jouvence’ (Ca. 1870)

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Figurative
Jeune femme arrangeant des fleurs

Jeune femme arrangeant des fleurs

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Figurative
Don Quixote tilting at the windmills

Don Quixote tilting at the windmills

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Mythology
Still Life with Sardines and Sea-Urchins 

Still Life with Sardines and Sea-Urchins  (1880-1882)

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Still Life
Femme allongée

Femme allongée

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Figurative
Young Woman with a Fan

Young Woman with a Fan

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Figurative
Scene from Faust

Scene from Faust

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Figurative
Vase de fleurs

Vase de fleurs

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Still Life
A Fete at the Tuileries

A Fete at the Tuileries (1856)

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Figurative
Paysage

Paysage

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Landscape
Six baigneuses

Six baigneuses

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
Figurative
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