Lot Essay
Eleanor Tufts (op. cit. p. 115), who catalogued this picture as being on panel, noted that Meléndez was not known to have painted on wood, and that (on basis of a photograph) the picture appeared doubtful.
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An earthenware jug, a basket with a white table-cloth, a pewter lid, a wooden spoon and pears on a wooden table ledge
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Follower of Luis Meléndez
An earthenware jug, a basket with a white table-cloth, a pewter lid, a wooden spoon and pears on a wooden table ledge
oil on canvas
19¾ x 25 7/8 in. (50.2 x 65.7 cm.)
An earthenware jug, a basket with a white table-cloth, a pewter lid, a wooden spoon and pears on a wooden table ledge
oil on canvas
19¾ x 25 7/8 in. (50.2 x 65.7 cm.)
Provenance
Anon. Sale, Christie's, London, 28 October 1966, lot 19, as 'Melendez' (sold 800 gns.).
Palozzi Collection, Barcelona.
Palozzi Collection, Barcelona.
Literature
E. Tufts, Luis Meléndez, Eighteenth-Century Master of the Spanish Still Life with a Catalogue Raisonné, Columbia, 1985, p. 115, no. 103, fig. 103, under 'Questionable Attributions'.
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