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AT-00001278Meditation (Seated Woman)
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower left: A. Montcelli
Provenance
Seth Morton Vose (died 1910), of Vose Galleries, Providence, R. I. [according to letter from Siobhan M. Wheeler, Vose Galleries, to Martha Wolff, dated February 8, 2001]; sold by Vose Galleries to Edward M. Harris, Providence, 1882 [according to letter cited above and Rogers 1937]; sold to Robert C. Vose, Vose Galleries, Boston, as early as 1929 [according to the letter cited above; see also Rogers 1937]; sold by Vose Galleries to Joseph Winterbotham, Jr. (died 1954), Burlington, Vermont, 1945 [according to letter cited above]; bequeathed to the Art Institute in 1954.
Exhibition history
Newport, R. I., Art Association of Newport, Exhibition of paintings by old and modern masters from the Robert C. Vose Galleries, August 17-September 7, 1929. Kansas City, Mo., exhibition presented by Vose Galleries, September 29-October 31, 1929. Los Angeles, Calif., exhibition presented by Vose Galleries, January 24, 1934. Indianapolis, Ind., John Herron Art Institute, exhibition presented by Vose Galleries, April 1-May 9, 1935. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exhibition presented by Vose Galleries, February 12-April 1, 1936. Concord Art Centre, exhibition presented by Vose Galleries, May 15-July 22, 1936. Palm Beach, Fla., Society of the Four Arts, exhibition presented by Vose Galleries, December 28, 1936. Houston Museum of Art, exhibition presented by Vose Galleries, January 28, 1937. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, exhibition presented by Vose Galleries, February 28-March 21, 1937. Los Angeles, Calif., exhibition presented by Vose Galleries, March 22, 1937. Omaha, Nebr., exhibition presented by Vose Galleries, Joslyn Memorial Art Museum, May 1-June 24, 1937. Richmond, Va., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, exhibition presented by Vose Galleries, November 30, 1938-January 6, 1939. Portland, Maine, Sweat Memorial Art Gallery, exhibition presented by Vose Galleries, July 22- September 18, 1940. Detroit, Mich., Hotel Statler, exhibition presented by Vose Galleries, November 4, 1940. Raleigh, N. C., Raleigh Art Centre, exhibition presented by Vose Galleries, December 2, 1940. Atlanta, Ga., High Museum of Art, exhibition presented by Vose Galleries, January 1- February 7, 1941. Springfield, Mass., George Walter Vincent Smith Art Gallery, Paintings by Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli 1824-1886, November 2- 23, 1941, no. 8. Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Cranbrook Academy, exhibition presented by Vose Galleries, January 25, 1944. New York, Paul Rosenberg and Company, Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Adolphe Monticelli (1824-1886), November 15-December 11, 1954, pp. 20 (ill.), 27, no. 18.
Publications
John William Rogers, “Masterpieces from England and France at Museum: Important Works on View Here in Vose Collection,” Dallas Times Herald, March 7, 1937. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: a catalogue of the picture collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 338.
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. 1878–79
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 52.4 × 40.4 cm (20 5/8 × 15 7/8 in.); Framed: 76.2 × 64.4 × 7.7 cm (30 × 25 3/8 × 3 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham
- Accession no.
- 1954.317
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