# Still Life with Fish, Bread, and Kettle, in Neoclassicism

Luis Meléndez painted this in about 1772, aged about 51. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> During the 1760s, after painting portraits and portrait miniatures with his father, Meléndez began to specialize in still lifes. Active mainly in Madrid, he is regarded as the finest Spanish still-life painter of the 18th century, but he spent much of his life in poverty.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1772
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: Framed: 54 x 67 x 5 cm (21 1/4 x 26 3/8 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 34 x 48 cm (13 3/8 x 18 7/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1983.97
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Luis Meléndez](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/luis-melendez), Spanish, 1716–1780

2 works in the collection.

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