The Afternoon Meal (Luis Meléndez)

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The Afternoon Meal
Spanish: La Merienda
ArtistLuis Egidio Meléndez[1]
Yearc. 1772
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions105.4 cm × 153.7 cm (41.5 in × 60.5 in)
LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art[2], New York

The Afternoon Meal (in Spanish, La Merienda[3]) is a mid-eighteenth-century still life painting by Spanish painter[1] Luis Egidio Meléndez (1716–1780).[4]

It was created around 1772.[5] Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts an assortment of fruits and bread set before a stark background.

The painting is a straight-sided ogee frame with sculpted Rococo corners and shallow-relief details,[2] collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[6]

References