Mephisto from the Opera Faust

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1870/86

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824–1886)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli
Title: Mephisto from the Opera Faust
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1870–1886
Medium: Oil on panel
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left: Monticelli
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.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Silvio Del Chicca
Reference Number: 1984.1493
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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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