Testing the Fates

c. 1860

Adolphe Monticelli

Painter, French, 1824 - 1886

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galerie Delarebeyrette, Paris). Henry M. Johnston, Brooklyn; (his sale, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, 28 February 1893, no. 71). Dr. E.M. Harris, Providence; (his sale, American Art Association, New York, 13-14 April 1899, no. 75); (Julius Oehme Gallery, New York).[1] Edward C. [d. 1915] and Mary Griffin Walker [1855-1937], Willistead Manor, Walkerville, Ontario, and Washington, by 1905;[2] bequest 1937 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Annotated copy of Harris auction catalogue; copy in NGA curatorial files.
[2] The painting was included in the 1905 exhibition Exhibition of Paintings, Lent from the Private Collection of E. Chandler Walker, Esq., held at the Detroit Museum of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1905

  • Exhibition of Paintings, Lent from the Private Collection of E. Chandler Walker, Esq., Detroit Museum of Art, April 1905, no. 45.

1958

  • A Selection of Paintings from the Edward C. Walker and Mary Walker Collection, Willistead Art Gallery, Windsor, Ontario, 8-29 October 1958, no. 13.

1978

  • Monticelli: His Contemporaries, His Influence, Musuem of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Art Gallery of Ontarior, Toronto; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Rijksmuseum Vincent Van Gogh, Amsterdam, 1978-1979, no. 9, repro.

1983

  • La Vie Moderne: Nineteenth Century French Art from the Corcoran Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Columbus Museum of Arts and Sciences, Georgia; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Tampa Museum; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; Akron Art Museum, 1983-1985, no. 24, repro.

Inscriptions

lower left: Monticelli

Wikidata ID

Q46628916

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