Adolphe-Joseph-Thomas Monticelli (1824-1886)
Adolphe-Joseph-Thomas Monticelli (1824-1886)

Fishermen lifting the nets before the storm, Coastal scene

Details
Adolphe-Joseph-Thomas Monticelli (1824-1886)
Fishermen lifting the nets before the storm, Coastal scene
signed 'A Monticelli' (lower left)
oil on panel
16.7/8 x 24.7/8 in. (42.9 x 63.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1878
Provenance
Sir Leicester Harmsworth, Bart, England.
Henry A. Golwynne, New York; estate sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 6 February 1957, lot 55.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York (acquired at the above sale; gift to the present owner, 1966).
Literature
S. Stammgna, Catalogue des oeuvres de Monticelli, Marseille, 1987, vol. II, no. 963 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, and Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Vincent Van Gogh, Monticelli, His Contemporaries, His Influence, October 1978-September 1979, p. 200, no. 48 (illustrated, pl. 86).
Marseille, Muse des Beaux-Arts, Orientalistes Provenaux, October-December 1982, no. 216. Marseille, Centre de la Vieille Charit, Adolphe Monticelli (1824-1886), October 1986-January 1987, p. 186 (illustrated).