Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli Art Prints

Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824–1886)

6 museum-quality prints of works by Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, each made to order on archival paper and shipped to your wall.

Adolphe Monticelli (1824–1886) was born in Marseille and trained there and in Paris, where he frequented Paul Delaroche’s studio in the late 1840s and studied the old masters in the Louvre — above all Watteau, whose fêtes galantes he reimagined in scenes of courtly gatherings such as Fête d’Après-Midi and Persons in Louis XV Costumes (both c. 1880). Painting with thick, jewel-like daubs of color against deep shadow, he built encrusted surfaces that had few parallels in his own generation.

The war of 1870 drove him from Paris, and he walked back to Marseille, where he lived in poverty despite a prolific output of still lifes, portraits, and fantasy subjects like The Fairies. Paul Cézanne, a friend, painted alongside him in the countryside around Aix; Vincent van Gogh, encountering his work in Paris in 1886, adopted a brighter palette and later remarked, “I sometimes think I am really continuing that man.”