Mephisto from the Opera Faust

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1870/86

Adolphe-Joseph-Thomas Monticelli
French, 1824-1886

Currently Off View: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli
Title: Mephisto from the Opera Faust
Origin: France
Date: 1870–1886
Medium: Oil on panel
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left: Monticelli
Dimensions: 15 1/8 × 10 5/16 in. (38.5 × 26.2 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Silvio Del Chicca
Reference Number: 1984.1493

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.

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