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3 unusual facts about Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli


Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli

In Paris he made copies after the Old Masters in the Louvre, and admired the oil sketches of Eugène Delacroix.

Among his collectors was Oscar Wilde who, after going to prison in 1895, wrote of his bankruptcy in a letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, "De Profundis": "That all my charming things were to be sold: my Burne-Jones drawings: my Whistler drawings: my Monticelli: my Simeon Solomons: my china: my Library..."

Jelle Taeke de Boer

“The Bacchanale” from Puvis de Chavannes, “Dans le Foret” from Monticelli, “L’Homme a Table” from Toulouse-Lautrec and finally the top piece, the “Infanta Margarita” from Manet.



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