"Faust, Margherita" by Adolphe Monticelli... - Lot 25 - Lux-Auction

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"Faust, Margherita" by Adolphe Monticelli... - Lot 25 - Lux-Auction
"Faust, Margherita" by Adolphe Monticelli (1824-1886) Oil on wood representing a country scene. With its original frame. Very good state of preservation. 19th century period Sight dimensions: H: 38,5; W: 46 cm Biography: Adopt Monticelli, born in 1824 in Marseille (France) belonged to a family of Italian origin settled in Marseille. In 1843, he won the drawing prize at the school of fine arts of his city. But the museum attracted him more than a school education, and when he came to Paris in 1847 for two years, he found his masters in Rembrandt, Veronese and Watteau at the Louvre, rather than in Paul Delaroche, in whose studio he studied. His training was slow and it was only in 1856, on his return to Paris, that his genius was awakened. He was appreciated by Delacroix and received the order for a decoration for the Tuileries. His meeting with Diaz decided the shock that revealed him to himself. But, although he discovered an affinity and an emulation with the painter of the Fêtes galantes, Watteau's successor, he surpassed his model as much by the ardour of his visionary expression as by the audacity of his technique. He superimposed touches of a generous paste, dissolving the form in a burst of pure colours, thus creating an enchanted world (Don Quichotte, c. 1865, Paris, Musée d'Orsay). This period - called "Parisian" or "Scottish" because of the nationality of its amateurs, or "Empress period" because of the adulation that, according to legend, the artist had for the sovereign - heralded her maturity. It began in 1870 when Monticelli returned to Marseilles for good. He then gave the most prestigious part of a fruitful and varied work. While continuing to produce fairy-tale imaginary worlds, he rediscovered a realistic eye for painting portraits whose faces are masoned in a luminous impasto (Madame René, Musée de Lyon; Madame Teissier, Paris, Musée d'Orsay; Portrait de femme, Chicago, Art Inst.), still lifes (Paris, Musée
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