A Basket of Flowers on a Stone Slab
Artist
Juan Bautista Romero
Spanish, b. Ruzafa (Valencia) 1756–d. Madrid after 1802
Datecirca 1780–1790
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions20 1/2 x 24 1/2 in. (52.1 x 62.2 cm)
Frame: 29 1/2 x 33 1/4 x 2 1/4 in. (74.9 x 84.5 x 5.7 cm)
Frame: 29 1/2 x 33 1/4 x 2 1/4 in. (74.9 x 84.5 x 5.7 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)
Object numberG.52.9.187
On View
Not on viewJuan Antonio Gaya Nuño, La pintura española fuera de España (Madrid: 1958), cat. no. 2515.
Anthony Kerrigan, "El nuevo museo de Carolina del Norte y su colección de pinturas españolas,"Goya 13 (1956), 56-60, illus. 60.
Robert F. Phifer Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1973), 78, illus. (b-w) 79.
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. 27, illus. (b-w) 86.
Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez, La Nature Morte Espagnole: du XVII siècle àGoya (Paris: Office du Livre, 1987), 200, illus. (color) 195, fig. 207, figs. 206 on 194 and 208 on 196 are related.
William B. Jordon and Peter Cherry, Spanish Still Life from Velazquez to Goya (London: National Gallery Publications, 1995), 170, cf. 25, 201.
Andrés Sánchez López, La pintura de bodegones y floreros en España en el siglo XVIII (Madrid: Fundacíon Arte Hispánico, 2008), listed and discussed 659, illus. (color) 555.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Robert F. Phifer Collection," March 31-May 13, 1973, 78, illus. (b-w) 79.
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.
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Juan Bautista Romero
circa 1770–1790
Juan Bautista Romero
circa 1775–1790
Juan de Borgoña
circa 1520–1540