Paintings
Still Life with Fish, Bread, and Kettle
PaintingStill Life
Details
- Author / creator
- Luis Meléndez (Spanish, 1716–1780)
- Object type
- Painting
- Date or period
- c. 1772
- Dimensions summary
- Framed: 54 × 67 × 5 cm; Unframed: 34 × 48 cm
- Support
- Canvas
- Paint medium
- Oil
- Place of origin
- Spain
- Acquisition method
- Donation
- Credit line
- Gift of the Linfield Collection, 1983
About this object
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.
Materials and technique
Oil on canvas
Signature and marks
Signed lower right: "L.M.[z]"
