Luis Meléndez
Still Life with Oranges, Nuts and Spices, Boxes of Sweetmeats, a Jug, and a Cask
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Luis Meléndez
Naples 1716 - 1780 Madrid
Still Life with Oranges, Nuts and Spices, Boxes of Sweetmeats, a Jug, and a Cask
signed and inscribed lower left: L.M.z / C A
oil on canvas
canvas: 14 ¼ by 19 ½ in.; 35.6 by 49.5 cm
framed: 21 ⅞ by 27 in.; 55.6 by 68.6 cm
William Drake, Hampshire, circa 1880 (by repute);
Mrs. William McDonald, London, by the 1950s;
With Harari & Johns Ltd., London, by 1995;
With Derek Johns, London;
From whom acquired by a private collector, Spain;
By whom sold ("Living With Art: A Private European Collection"), Christie's, London, 9 February 2012, lot 642;
Where acquired by the present collector.
Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, long-term loan, January 2018 - January 2019.
P. Cherry, Luis Meléndez, Still-Life Painter, Madrid 2006, pp. 132, 168, 344 note 212, 481, 545, cat. no. 101, reproduced.
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