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Harvest Festival
188316 x 28 in. (40.6 x 71.1 cm)
Adolphe Monticelli
France (Marseille, France, 1824 – 1886, Marseille, France)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
Oil on cradled panel
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Emily and James Sibley Watson
Accession Number:
1951.32
Location: Not currently on view
Monticelli was captivated by the rich colors and brushwork of Venetian Renaissance painting and of his somewhat older French contemporary Delacroix. By 1860 he was already experimenting with the softened effects that the Impressionists would adopt only in the 1880s. Van Gogh was fascinated by the light in Monticelli's canvasas, which seem to emanate from the colors themselves, rather than from an outside source. In this late work, which depicts one of the artist's favorite festive themes, form and color mysteriously melt together.
[Adapted from gallery label text, 1999]
[Adapted from gallery label text, 1999]
Provenance
Purchased from the artist by Daniel Cottier (1838-1891, dealer) New York; presumably purchased from him by Vose Galleries, Boston; purchased from them by James Sibley Watson (1860-1951), Rochester, NY, 1936; gift of his estate to the Gallery in 1951
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genre scenes
scenes of everyday life
scenes of everyday life
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Retrospective of French Art Memorial Art Gallery 6/1/1948 - 9/1/1948
- Monticelli 1/5/1955 - 1/25/1955
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Scope: Article. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Volume Number: 17, Issue Number: 2. Issue Date: November-December, 1951.
- Art Digest. New York, New York: Art Digest, Inc.
- Docent Newsletter. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery
- Article Scope: Exhibition Checklist. Monticelli. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, 1955.
- Syracuse Herald-American. Syracuse, NY
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