Persons in Louis XV Costumes

Provenance

Julius Schmits (died 1916), Elberfeld; sent by Mrs. Schmits in 1939 to museum in Basel for safekeeping; picture remained there until 1953 [according to fact sheet provided by Wildenstein and Co., London to J. W. Clarke, copy in curatorial files]. Wildenstein and Co., London by 1975; sold to Mr. and Mrs. John Walter Clarke, Chicago, August 11, 1975; given to the Art Institute, 1987.

Persons in Louis XV Costumes

Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli

c. 1880

Accession Number

69137

Medium

Oil on cradled panel

Dimensions

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.)

Classification

oil on panel

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Clarke