Still Life with Fish, Bread, and Kettle (c. 1772): Art, History and Details

Still Life with Fish, Bread, and Kettle (c. 1772) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Luis Meléndez (Spanish, 1716–1780).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Still Life with Fish, Bread, and Kettle
• Date: c. 1772
• Creator attribution: Luis Meléndez (Spanish, 1716–1780)
• Culture: Spain
• Type: Painting
• Technique: 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.)
• Collection: P - Spanish before 1800
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1983.97

Collection credit

Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. “Year in Review for 1983.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 2 (February 1984): 38–79.

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