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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This figure group of elegantly costumed figures in a park, reminiscent of Watteau's fête galantes, is typical of Monticelli's oeuvre. Influenced by Watteau and with a general interest in eighteenth century paintings, Monticelli is known for his association with the revival of Rococo style in France in the nineteenth century. This work, painted in rich colours, thickly applied, producing an almost distorted figurative image, must date from the mature phase of the artist's career, when he was equally concerned with colours, surface texture and subject matter. In composition, the two female figures resemble those in Monticelli's La Promenade of c.1857-60. However, in around 1875, he produced a number of pictures depicting women in parks accompanied by cavaliers. Praised by contemporaries such as Van Gogh and Cézanne, Monticelli's work can be seen in numerous art collections worldwide. | Subjects: | figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Monticelli, Adolphe Joseph Thomas (French painter, 1824-1886) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8514... | Go to resource |
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