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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This painting is typical of the works by Monticelli that Scottish collectors at the turn of the 19th century admired. Monticelli's dramatic use of rich sensual colours against dark, mysterious backgrounds enticed the collectors into feeling they were buying a 19th century equivalent of Rembrandt. As is so often the case with Monticelli's paintings we are only vaguely aware of the subject. Here a party of elegantly-dressed men and women stand in front of a large stone portal, presumably a church. Red-uniformed figures carry flag-bedecked spears and the women wear crinolines. Monticelli's brushstrokes are strong and vigorous. | Subjects: | figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Monticelli, Adolphe Joseph Thomas (French painter, 1824-1886) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8304... | Go to resource |
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