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Flowers in a Blue Vase

1879–1883
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 825
Monticelli painted hundreds of pictures with heavily textured, richly colored surfaces, but his still lifes, all of which were painted between 1879 and 1883, were most admired. Cézanne was fascinated by his work, as was Van Gogh, who wrote to his brother that "Monticelli sometimes made a bunch of flowers as an excuse for gathering together in a single panel the whole range of his richest and most perfectly balanced tones... you must go straight to Delacroix to find anything equal to his orchestration of tones."

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Flowers in a Blue Vase
  • Artist: Adolphe Monticelli (French, Marseilles 1824–1886 Marseilles)
  • Date: 1879–1883
  • Medium: Oil on wood
  • Dimensions: Overall, with added strip at right, 26 1/2 x 19 1/4 in. (67.3 x 48.9 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Werner E. Josten, 1956
  • Object Number: 56.183
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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