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Still Life with Fish, Bread, and Kettle
About the Artwork
During the 1760s, after painting portraits and portrait miniatures with his father, Meléndez began to specialize in still lifes. Active mainly in Madrid, he is regarded as the finest Spanish still-life painter of the 18th century, but he spent much of his life in poverty.
Inscriptions
Signed lower right: "L.M.[z]"
Exhibition history
The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984). El Alma de España (The Soul of Spain). The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM (organizer) (April 25-July 31, 2005). Luis Meléndez. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (May 17-August 27, 2009); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (September 27, 2009-January 3, 2010); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (February 2-May 9, 2010).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Luis Meléndez (Spanish, 1716–1780)
- Date
- c. 1772
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 54 x 67 x 5 cm (21 1/4 x 26 3/8 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 34 x 48 cm (13 3/8 x 18 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Accession no.
- 1983.97
Provenance
Marqués de Casa Torres, Conde de Saltes, Madrid (1913); (E. Speelman, London)
More by Luis Meléndez in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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