About This Artwork
Adolphe-Joseph-Thomas Monticelli
French, 1824-1886
Still Life with Fruit and Wine Jug1874
Oil on panel
19 x 23 1/2 in. (48.2 x 59.7 cm)
Inscribed lower left: Monticelli
Gift of Mary and Leigh Block, 1988.261
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Gallery 241
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York, Paul Rosenberg and Co., Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Adolphe Monticelli (1824-1886), November 15 - December 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 (ill.); traveled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 21-November 2, 1967.
Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Monticelli, His Contemporaries, His Influence, 1978-79, p. 75, pl. 110, traveled to 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), October 12, 1986 - 4 January 1987.
Publication History
The Art Institute Annual Report 1988-89 (Chicago, 1989), pp. 22, 55.
Ownership History
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, January 1953 [information from Marcia Zaaijer, as cited above]; sold to Mary and Leigh Block, Chicago, March 1953 [according to Rosenberg records provided by Elaine Rosenberg, May 2002; see also Marseille 1986-87]; given to the Art Institute, 1988.

