Adolphe Monticelli - Pintor Frances - 1824 - 1886
Autoretrato 65 x 53 1866 Oleo Tela Museo D'Orsay, Paris Francia Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (October 14, 1824 – June 29, 1886) Nationality: French Field: Painting Art Movement: Romanticism ARTiFact: Vincent van Gogh greatly admired Monticelli’s work after seeing it in Paris when he arrived there in 1886. Van Gogh immediately adopted a brighter palette and a bolder attack, and later remarked, “I owe everything to Monticelli, who taught me the chromatics of color. I sometimes think I am really continuing that man.” Artist Quote: “I paint for thirty years from now.” 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 scho...
