Still Life
1880s
Painter, French, 1824 - 1886
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on wood
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 41.91 × 62.87 cm (16 1/2 × 24 3/4 in.)
framed: 65.72 × 84.14 × 5.72 cm (25 7/8 × 33 1/8 × 2 1/4 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.33
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
T. Martin-Chave, Marseille.[1] sold c. 1914 to William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York;[2] bequest April 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] According to Dana H. Carroll, Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue, unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 200, no. 248, Clark acquired the painting from "T. Martin-Chave." The painting was possibly once in the possession of Léon Chave, Marseille, a collector of Monticelli's works, and then inherited by his family upon his death. His daughter, Isabelle Martin-Chave, and her husband, may have been the source to whom Carroll was referring.
[2] This painting was one of three that Clark purchased from the Chave family. According to André M. Alauzen and Pierre Ripert, Clark purchased the painting through the dealers Gill and Boyer. See Alauzen and Ripert, Monticelli: Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre, Paris, 1969: 466.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1920
Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of Honorable William A. Clark, Lotos Club, New York, January 1920, no. 41, as Nature morte.
1959
Loan Exhibition. Masterpieces of the Corcoran Gallery of Art: A Benefit Exhibition in Honor of the Gallery's Centenary, Wildenstein, New York, 28 January - 7 March 1959, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
1978
The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 April - 16 July 1978, unnumbered catalogue.
Monticelli: His Contemporaries, His Influence, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Rijksmuseum Vincent Van Gogh, Amsterdam, 26 October 1978 - 2 September 1979, no. 33.
Bibliography
1925
Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 200, no. 248.
Inscriptions
lower right, by another hand: Monticelli / 1871[1]
Wikidata ID
Q46630782