DETAILS
- Artist
- Adolphe Monticelli
- Date
- 1853
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- [object Object]
- Collection
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Credit line
- Gift of Alfred W. Kleinbaum
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THE ARTIST
Adolphe Monticelli
Adolphe Monticelli, a French painter of the generation preceding the Impressionists, crafted richly textured canvases that deeply inspired Vincent van Gogh.
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