Still Life with Fish, Bread, and Kettle
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
unframed: 34 × 48 cm · framed: 54 × 67 × 5 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Accession Number
1983.97
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Latine and Hispanic Artistsmale
About this 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.