Still Life with Jug, Bread, and Basket with Tableware

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.52.9.175

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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. 208, illus. (b-w).

W. Aubrey Cartwright, Guide to Art Museums in the United States (New York, 1958), 151.

Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, La pintura español fuera de españa (Madrid: 1958), cat. no. 1785.

Sale Arte (January-March 1965), no. 73, illus. 20.

Anthony Kerrigan, "El nuevo museo de Carolina del Norte y su colección de pinturas españolas," Goya 13 (1956), 56-60, illus. 59.

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

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), 70.

Eleanor Tufts, Luis Meléndez: Eighteenth Century Master of the Spanish Still-Life, with a Catalogue Raisonné (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1985), 113-14, illus. pl. 102 (as copy).

Edward J. Sullivan, Catalogue of Spanish Paintings (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1986), cat. no. 17, illus. (b-w) 56.

Giancarol Sestieri, Nature morte italiane ed europee dal XVI al XVIII secolo (De Luca Edizione D'Arte, 1989), cat. no. 71, illus. (color) unnumbered page.

Linda C. Ehrlich, Bodegón (Still Life) (Shika Press, 2012), illus. (color) 35.Exhibition HistoryDallas, TX, Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, "The Art that Broke the Looking Glass," November 14-December 31, 1961, cat. no. 58, illus.

Newark, NJ, Newark Museum "The Golden Age of Spanish Still-Life Painting," December 10, 1964-January 26, 1965, cat. no. 19, illus.

Jacksonville, FL, Cummer Gallery of Art, "700 Years of Spanish Art," October 28-November 30, 1965, cat. no. 43, illus.

Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Art Museum, "25 Still Life Paintings," April 15-May 15, 1966.

Raleigh, 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.
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