Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001189Persons in Louis XV Costumes
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower right: A. Monticelli
Provenance
Julius Schmits (died 1916), Elberfeld; sent by Mrs. Schmits in 1939 to museum in Basel for safekeeping; picture remained there until 1953 [according to fact sheet provided by Wildenstein and Co., London to J. W. Clarke, copy in curatorial files]. Wildenstein and Co., London by 1975; sold to Mr. and Mrs. John Walter Clarke, Chicago, August 11, 1975; given to the Art Institute, 1987.
Exhibition history
Caracas, Museo de Bellas Artes, Obras clasicas de la pintura europea, 1956, cat. 32.
Publications
The Art Institute Annual Report 1986-1987 (Chicago, 1987), p. 56.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824–1886)
- Date
- c. 1880
- Medium
- Oil on cradled panel
- Dimensions
- 32 × 46.3 cm (12 5/8 × 18 1/4 in.); Framed: 50.8 × 65.1 × 5.4 cm (20 × 25 5/8 × 2 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on panel
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Clarke
- Accession no.
- 1987.92.1
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