Vrouwen in een park

Handling aligns with Monticelli’s late-career practice, featuring dense, impastoed passages that build up texture in the foliage and figures’ garments.

The painting is executed in oil on panel, measuring 39 cm by 47 cm.

Handling aligns with Monticelli’s late-career practice, featuring dense, impastoed passages that build up texture in the foliage and figures’ garments. The brushwork is at once vigorous and nuanced, with layered strokes that modulate between opaque highlights and transparent glazes, particularly in the treatment of light filtering through the trees. The composition emphasizes the interplay of light and shadow, with figures positioned to catch and reflect ambient illumination, reinforcing the genre’s characteristic emphasis on leisure and atmosphere.

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Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli created the oil painting Vrouwen in een park in 1878. Executed on a panel measuring 39 by 47 cm, the work depicts a genre scene. The painting entered the collection of Cornelis Hoogendijk, who owned the piece prior to its acquisition by Dutch national institutions.

It is currently held within the Rijksmuseum's holdings, specifically stored in the depot of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE), having previously been part of the Instituut Collectie Nederland.

Vrouwen in een park is held in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, where it is stored at the depot of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands Art Collection (Instituut Collectie Nederland) in the RCE depot. The painting was formerly owned by Cornelis Hoogendijk. The provided sources do not supply an inventory or accession number, nor do they document any exhibition history for the work.

The panel, measuring 39 cm in height and 47 cm in width, was produced in 1878 and is catalogued as a genre painting in oil.