Portrait of a Lady

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1870–79

Attributed to Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)

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

Artist: Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli
Title: Portrait of a Lady
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.: 1870–1879
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left: Monticelli P. Mai--Septembre
Dimensions: 130.6 × 97.5 cm (51 3/8 × 38 3/8 in.); Framed: 162 × 129 × 14 cm (63 3/4 × 50 3/4 × 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: A. A. Munger Collection
Reference Number: 1947.25
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Daniel Catton Rich, “Two Great French Portraits, ” Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin vol. 42 (1948), pp. 78-81, ill. p. 80.
Pictures on exhibit (November 1954), p. 32 (ill.)
D. Phillips, “Niche for Monticelli,” Art News 53, no. 8 (1954), pp. 23 (ill.), 66.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 322.

New York, Paul Rosenberg and Co., Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Adolphe Monticelli, 1824-1886, November 15-December 11, 1954, cat. 23 (ill.), as “The Artist’s Mother.”
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Style, Truth and the Portrait, October 1-November 10, 1963, cat. 84 (ill.).

Richard Owen, Paris [according to information on accession card]. Leicester Galleries, London [according to information on accession card]. Ernest, Brown & Phillips, London by 1947; sold to the Art Institute, 1947.

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