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AEDAdolphe Francois Monfallet “Smoking the Pipe” Oil on Panel
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LiveJun 3, 2026
Pre-bidding is now open for our June Fine Art & Design auction, featuring fine art, sterling silver, wrist and pocket watches, sculptures, and designer bags. Highlights include an 18K Tiffany & Co Pocket Watch, 1987 Chinese Gold Panda Proof Sets, alongside paintings from Sydney Laurence, Alfred Copestick, Adrien Sacquespee, and Felix Ziem. SebastianCharles Auctions bid@sebastiancharles.com
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- Lot Description
Artist: Adolphe Francois Monfallet (1816-1900)
No signature visible.
Description per Appraisal: Gentleman sitting next to a table, lighting his pipe. On the table is a flacon and glass of ale and some bread.
Image: 10" x 8"
Frame: 18" x 16"
Condition: Wear to the frame and minor crazing in the lower right of the painting.
Artist Bio: Adolphe François Monfallet (1816–1900) was a French academic genre painter trained in the Parisian ateliers of the mid-19th century. He specialized in finely detailed cabinet pictures — peasants, smokers, card players, and tavern interiors — rendered in the small-scale Northern-influenced genre tradition then popular with Second Empire and Third Republic collectors. Monfallet exhibited at the Paris Salon over several decades, working in parallel with contemporaries Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier and Pierre Édouard Frère who defined the French academic genre school. His pipe-smoker and tavern subjects remain his most recognizable contribution to the genre.
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