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Still Life with Fish, Bread, and Kettle
Luis Egidio Meléndezc. 1772
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: Still Life with Fish, Bread, and Kettle
- Creator: Luis Meléndez (Spanish, 1716-1780)
- Date Created: c. 1772
- Physical 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.)
- Provenance: Marqués de Casa Torres, Conde de Saltes, Madrid (1913); (E. Speelman, London)
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.97
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Inscriptions: Signed lower right: "L.M.[z]"
- Department: European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: Spain, 18th century
- Credit Line: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
- Collection: P - Spanish before 1800
- Accession Number: 1983.97
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