Still Life with Fruit and Wine Jug
Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
48.2 × 59.7 cm (19 × 23 1/2 in.); Framed: 66.9 × 79.4 × 7.7 cm (26 3/8 × 31 1/4 × 3 in.)
Classification
oil on panel
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
72183
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Vincent van Gogh was a great admirer of Adolphe Monticelli’s richly impastoed paintings, and he saw in the older artist’s landscapes, flower arrangements, and portraits the sincere expression he was seeking for his own art. He also identified with the myth of the misunderstood artist from Provence that rapidly grew around Monticelli after his death in 1886. Indeed, the artist played a role in Van Gogh’s decision that same year to travel to the South of France, where he hoped to find the source o...