Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001444Mephisto from the Opera Faust
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower left: Monticelli
Provenance
Mrs. Lillian Del Chicca (Mrs. Silvio Del Chicca), Chicago by 1981 [according to Richard Brettell’s letter to Mrs. Lillian Del Chicca, dated February 9, 1981, in curatorial file]; Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, May 27, 1982, lot 126, as Mephistopheles; Mr. and Mrs. Silvio Del Chicca; given to the Art Institute, 1984.
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
- 1870–86
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 38.5 × 26.2 cm (15 1/8 × 10 5/16 in.); Framed: 59.1 × 46.4 × 6.4 cm (23 1/4 × 18 1/4 × 2 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on panel
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Silvio Del Chicca
- Accession no.
- 1984.1493
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