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Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli

Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (1824 - 1886) was active/lived in France.  Adolphe Monticelli is known for Landscape, figure and genre painting.

Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (October 14, 1824 - June 29, 1886) was a French painter of the generation preceding the Impressionists.

Monticelli was born in Marseille in humble circumstances.  He attended the École Municipale de Dessin in Marseille from 1842 to 1846, and continued his artistic training in Paris, where he studied under Paul Delaroche at the École des Beaux-Arts. In Paris he made copies after the Old Masters in the Louvre, and admired the oil sketches of Eugène Delacroix.  In 1855 he met Narcisse Diaz, a member of the Barbizon school, and the two often painted together in the Fontainebleau Forest. Monticelli frequently adopted Diaz's practice of introducing nudes or elegantly costumed figures into his landscapes.

He developed a highly individual Romantic style of painting, in which richly colored, dappled, textured and glazed surfaces produce a scintillating effect.  He painted courtly subjects inspired by Antoine Watteau; he also painted   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5531 characters.]  Artist bio

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