Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001210Still Life with Fruit and Wine Jug
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower left: Monticelli
Provenance
Jacques Blot, Paris; sold to E. J. Van Wisselingh & Co, Amsterdam, 1952 [information provided in email from Marcia Zaaijer, based on Van Wisselingh photos in Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague; Wisselingh asigned the painting number S 7295]; sold to Paul Rosenberg and Co., New York, Jan. 23, 1953 [information from Marcia Zaaijer, as cited above]; sold to Mary and Leigh Block, Chicago, Mar. 26, 1953 [according to Rosenberg records provided by Elaine Rosenberg, May 2002; see also Marseille 1986-87]; given to the Art Institute, 1988.
Exhibition history
New York, Paul Rosenberg and Co., Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Adolphe Monticelli (1824-1886), Nov. 15–Dec. 11, 1954, cat. 11. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 100 European Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, 1967, cat. 3; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sep. 21–Nov. 2, 1967. Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Monticelli, His Contemporaries, His Influence, 1978-79, pl. 110; Toronto, Gallery of Ontario, Washington, D.C., Corcoran Art Gallery, and Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Vincent Van Gogh, 1979. Marseille, Centre de la Vieille Charité, Adolphe Monticelli (1824-1886), Oct. 12, 1986–Jan. 4, 1987.
Publications
Duncan Phillips, "A Niche for Monticelli," Art News 53, no. 8 (Dec. 1954): 22 (ill.) Sauveur Stammegna, Catalogue des oeuvres de Monticelli (France, 1986), no. 425. The Art Institute Annual Report 1988-89 (Chicago, 1989), 22, 55.
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
- 1874
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 48.2 × 59.7 cm (19 × 23 1/2 in.); Framed: 66.9 × 79.4 × 7.7 cm (26 3/8 × 31 1/4 × 3 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on panel
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Mary and Leigh Block
- Accession no.
- 1988.261
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