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Still Life with a Plate of Cherries, Plums, Cheese, and a Pitcher
Still Life with a Plate of Cherries, Plums, Cheese, and a Pitcher

Still Life with a Plate of Cherries, Plums, Cheese, and a Pitcher

ArtistCopy after Luis Egidio Meléndez Spanish, b. Naples, 1716–d. Madrid, 1780
Dateafter circa 1830
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions17 1/2 x 13 in. (44.5 x 33 cm)
Frame: 24 1/16 x 19 1/16 x 2 1/4 in. (61.1 x 48.4 x 5.7 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)
Object numberG.52.9.174
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceHijos de D. Santiago Pierrad, MadridPublished ReferencesW. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 207.

Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, La pintura español fuera de españa (Madrid: 1958), cat. no. 1784.

Robert F. Phifer Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1973), 50, illus. (b-w) 51.

Irving Penn, Recent Still Life (New York: Marlborough Gallery, Inc., 1982), illus. 5.

Anthony Kerrigan, "El nuevo museo de Carolina del Norte y su collección de pinturas españolas," Goya 13 (1956), 56-60, illus. 58.

Eleanor Tufts and Juan J. Luna, Luis Melendéz: Spanish Still-Life Painter of the Eighteenth Century (exhibition catalog) (Dallas: Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, ca. 1985), 60 (mentioned as copy of original in Prado).

Eleanor Tufts, Luis Melendéz: Eighteenth-Century master of the Spanish Still-Life, with a Catalogue Raisonné (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1985), 113, illus. pl. 101 (as copy).

Edward J. Sullivan, Catalogue of Spanish Paintings (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1986), cat. no. 18, illus. (b-w) 58.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Robert F. Phifer Collection," March 31-May 13, 1973, 50, illus. (b-w) 51.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Spanish Still-Life Paintings from the Permanent Collection," (collateral exhibition to "Luis Melendéz: Spanish Still-Life Painter of the Eighteenth Century"), January 12-March 10, 1985, brochure.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "PARTICIPATE: Activate the Senses," December 18, 2021-July 2, 2022.
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