About This Artwork

Adolphe-Joseph-Thomas Monticelli
French, 1824-1886

Still Life with Fruit and Wine Jug, 1874

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

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.