LUIS EGIDIO MELENDEZ
Still life with a plate of grapes, melons, and apples, c. 1770
Oil on canvas
41.5 × 61.5 cm; 16 1/3 × 24 1/4 in.
Copyright The Artist
Provenance
Rosendo Naseiro Collection, Madrid;
With Caylus, Madrid, 1993-1994;
Private collection.
Literature
E. Tufts, Meléndez. Eighteenth Century Master of the Spanish Still Life, Columbia 1985, p. 183, reproduced fig. 77.
J. J. Luna, ‘Novedades y cuadros inéditos de Luis Meléndez’, El arte en tiempo de Carlos III, Jornadas de Arte. Departamento de Historia del Arte "Diego Velázquez", Madrid 1989, p. 373.
J. J. Luna, Los alimentos de España en la pintura de bodegones de Luis Meléndez, Madrid 1995, cat. no. 14, reproduced p. 85.
P. Cherry, Luis Meléndez. Still-Life painter, Madrid 2006, cat. no. 127, p. 548, reproduced p. 507.