Don Quixote at the Wedding of Gamacho
1883/1884
Painter
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 86.36 × 138.43 cm (34 × 54 1/2 in.)
framed: 106.68 × 155.26 × 10.8 cm (42 × 61 1/8 × 4 1/4 in.) -
Accession
2015.143.16
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Collection of the artist; acquired August 1885 by Léon Chave [1822-1899], Marseilles;[1] by inheritance in the Chave family, Marseille.[2] sold 1904 to William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York, as by Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli;[3] bequest April 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, as by Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Early provenance according to André M. Alauzen and Pierre Ripert, Monticelli: Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre, Paris, 1969: 226, fig. 319.
[2] According to Dana H. Carroll, Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue, part I, unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925):194, no. 231, Clark acquired the painting from "T. Martin-Chave." It is possible that Clark was referring to Chave's daughter, Isabelle Martin-Chave (1856-1942).
[3] This painting was one of three that Clark purchased from the Chave family. According to Alauzen and Ripert 1969, Clark purchased the painting through the dealers Gill and Boyer.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1956
Visionaries and Dreamers, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 7 April - 27 May 1956, no. 11, as by Adolphe Monticelli.
1959
Loan Exhibition. Masterpieces of the Corcoran Gallery of Art: A Benefit Exhibition in Honor of the Gallery's Centenary, Wildenstein Galleries, New York, 28 January - 7 March 1959, unnumbered catalogue, as by Adolphe Monticelli.
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 Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 194, no. 231.
Inscriptions
lower right: Monticelli
Wikidata ID
Q46625970