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Portrait of a Lady
Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli · 1870–79
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- 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.).
Literature
Published references
- 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.
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