The Afternoon Meal (Luis Meléndez)

The Afternoon Meal
Spanish: La Merienda
Artist	Luis Egidio Meléndez[1]
Year	c. 1772
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	105.4 cm × 153.7 cm (41.5 in × 60.5 in)
Location	Metropolitan 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

1. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1984). The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 109–. ISBN 978-0-87099-370-1.
2. Paul Mitchell; Lynn Roberts (1996). A history of European picture frames. Paul Mitchell Ltd., in Association with Merrell Holberton. ISBN 9781858940366.
3. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Philippe De Montebello (1987). The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide. The Museum. ISBN 978-0-8109-1443-8.
4. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Katharine Baetjer (1995). European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 162–. ISBN 978-0-87099-734-1.
5. María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco Carrillo de Albornoz; Cindy Mack (2004). Spanish art in New York: guide. Asociación de Amigos de la Hispanic Society of America. ISBN 9788460921363.
6. "metmuseum.org". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2018-09-29.