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Mephisto from the Opera Faust

Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli · 1870–86

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Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli's "Mephisto from the Opera Faust" is an oil on panel painting executed between 1870 and 1886. Measuring 38.5 × 26.2 cm, the artwork depicts a subject from the opera *Faust*. Monticelli was a French painter (1824–1886). The artwork's classification confirms it is an oil on panel, and its cultural origin is France.

The painting was gifted to the Art Institute by Dr. and Mrs. Silvio Del Chicca in 1984. Prior to this, it was owned by Mrs. Lillian Del Chicca by 1981, and later sold at Sotheby's, New York, on May 27, 1982, as "Mephistopheles." The painting is part of the Painting and Sculpture of Europe department at the Art Institute of Chicago.

No exhibition history or literature references are provided in the supplied catalogue data. Details regarding Monticelli's specific nationality beyond "French" are not available in the provided artist authority record.

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Provenance

Ownership history

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.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

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