Afternoon Meal (Savouries): country paté, meat pies, egg salad, and wine

Artist Juan Bautista Romero Spanish, b. Ruzafa (Valencia) 1756–d. Madrid after 1802

Datecirca 1770–1790

MediumOil on panel

Dimensions17 x 23 in. (43.2 x 58.4 cm)
Frame: 23 1/2 x 29 3/8 in. (59.7 x 74.6 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)

Object numberG.52.9.185

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ProvenanceMiguel Angel Muguiro, Madrid; "Sons of Santiago Pierrad," Madrid; with Newhouse Galleries, New York; sold to NCMA, 1952.
Published ReferencesLa Exposición de floreros y bodegones en la pintura española (exhibition catalogue) (Madrid: Palacio de la Biblioteca Nacional, 1935), cat. no. 79.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 219, illus. (b-w).

Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, La pintura española fuera de España (Madrid: 1958), cat. no. 25.

Fetes de la Palette: An Exhibition of European Paintings and Decorative Arts from the mid-16th century through the mid-eighteenth century. Dedicated to the 'Delights of the Bountiful Table (exhibition catalogue) (New Orleans: Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, 1962), cat. no. 62.

Robert F. Phifer Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1973), 76, illus. (b-w) 77.

Juan J. Luna, "Miscelanea sobre Bodegones de Melendez a Goya," Goya 183 (November-December 1984), 151-57.

Edward J. Sullivan, Catalogue of Spanish Paintings (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1986), cat. no. 25, illus. (b-w) 82.

Elizabeth David, A Book of Mediterranean Food (London: Dorling Kindersley Ltd., 1988), 42, illus.

William B. Jordan and Peter Cherry, Spanish Still Life from Velazquez to Goya (London: National Gallery Publications, 1995), 171, cf. 201, no. 27.

Peter Cherry, Luis Meléndez: Still-Life Painter (Madrid: Fundación de Apoyo a la Historia del Arte Hispánico, 2006), discussed 290-292, illus. (color) 289, fig. 273.

Andrés Sánchez López, La pintura de bodegones y floreros en España en el siglo XVIII (Madrid: Fundacíon Arte Hispánico, 2008), listed and discussed 659-660, illus. (color) 351 and 557.

Exhibition HistoryMadrid, Palacio de la Biblioteca Nacional, "La Exposición de floreros y bodegones en la pintura española," May 11-June 20, 1935, cat. no. 79.

Bordeaux, Bordeaux Galerie des Beaux-Arts, "La Découverte de la lumière des Primitifs aux Impressionistes," May 19-July 31, 1959, cat. no. 157.

New Orleans, LA, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, "Fêtes de la Palette, An Exposition of European Paintings and Decorative Arts from the Mid-Sixteenth through the Mid-Eighteenth Century: Dedicated to the Delights of the Bountiful Table," 1962, cat. no. 55.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Robert F. Phifer Collection," March 31-May 13, 1973, 76, illus. (b-w) 77.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Spanish Still-Life Paintings from the Permanent Collection," (collateral exhibition to: "Luis Meléndez: Spanish Still-Life Painter of the Eighteenth Century"), January 12-March 10, 1985, brochure p. 6.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Education Gallery, "Objects of Delight: Still-Lifes from the Permanent Collection," October 5, 1990-June 16, 1991.
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