Still Life with Fish, Bread, and Kettle (Q60475269)

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genre: still life (Q170571)
artist: Luis Egidio Meléndez (Q707478)
collection: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
location of final assembly: Spain (Q29)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)
Google Arts & Culture asset ID: lQG73po_fnbbng

catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.97

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description: 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.

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