
Persons in Louis XV Costumes
Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli · c. 1880
- Medium
- Oil on cradled panel
- Original size
- 32 × 46.3 cm (12 5/8 × 18 1/4 in.); Framed: 50.8 × 65.1 × 5.4 cm (20 × 25 5/8 × 2 1/8 in.)
- Currently held
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Movement
- Realism
Persons in Louis XV Costumes glows with the dense, jewel-like colour and atmospheric mystery that made Monticelli one of the most distinctive French painters of the nineteenth century. Monticelli spent much of his career in Marseille, working in relative isolation from the Parisian mainstream, yet he developed a highly personal technique built on thick, encrusted impasto and richly layered pigments. His figures — often dressed in the silks and powdered wigs of the ancien régime — seem to emerge from shadow rather than stand in light, their forms half-dissolved into a shimmering ground of colour. This work, painted on a cradled panel rather than canvas, exemplifies his preference for surfaces that could hold the weight of his heavily applied paint without buckling. Vincent van Gogh was one of Monticelli's most ardent admirers, collecting his work and citing his expressive use of colour as a direct influence on his own palette — a debt that is well-documented in Van Gogh's letters. The hand-painted oil reproduction honours Monticelli's layered, textural approach, with each brushstroke applied by hand to recreate the depth and luminosity that a print simply cannot replicate.
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