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)

ClassificationsPaintings

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

Object numberG.52.9.187

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Provenance"Sons of Santiago Pierrad," Madrid; with Newhouse Galleries, New York; sold to NCMA, 1952.Published ReferencesW. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 221.

Juan 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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