Luis Meléndez

With Jan Dik, London, 1961;

Georg Schäfer (1896-1975), Schweinfurt, by 1963;

From whom acquired by Jan Dik, Vevey, Switzerland, by 1985;

From whom acquired by Rodney Merrington, Agnew’s, Switzerland;

From whom acquired by Renata and Michal Hornstein, Montreal, 1985;

From whom acquired via private sale, Sotheby’s, New York, by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III, 1999.

H. Soehner, Spanische Meister, Bayerische Staatsgemälde­sammlungen Alte Pinakothek, vol. I, Munich 1963, p. 107;

E. Tufts, "Luis Meléndez, Still-Life Painter Sans-Pareil," in Gazette des Beaux-Arts 100, no. 1366 (November 1982), pp. 158-159, cat. no. 56;

E. Tufts, Luis Meléndez: Eighteenth-Century Master of the Spanish Still Life, with a Catalogue Raisonné, Columbia 1985, pp. 96, 98, 178, cat. no. 66, reproduced pl. 66;

Luis Meléndez: Spanish Still-Life Painter of the Eighteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, E. Tufts and J.L. Luna (eds.), Dallas 1985, pp. 68-69, cat. no. 8, reproduced;

N. Ayala Mallory, "Dallas: Luis Meléndez, exhibition review," in Burlington Magazine 127, no. 985 (April 1985), p. 260;

F.J. Duparc, The Renata and Michal Hornstein Collection, European Old Masters, Montreal 1990, unpublished manuscript, n.p., cat. no. 65;

J.L. Luna, Los alimentos de España en la pintura de bodegones de Luis Meléndez, Madrid 1995, p. 94, under cat. no. 19, reproduced p. 32;

P. Cherry, in Luis Meléndez: Bodegones, exhibition catalogue, P. Cherry and J.L. Luna (eds.), Madrid 2004, pp. 31, 34-35, 40-41, 43, 46, 48, 54, 176-177, cat. no. 11, reproduced;

N. Seseña, in Luis Meléndez: Bodegones, exhibition catalogue, P. Cherry and J.L. Luna (eds.), Madrid 2004, pp. 135, 137;

P. Cherry, in Luis Meléndez, Still Lifes, exhibition catalogue, P. Cherry and J.L. Luna (eds.), Dublin 2004, pp. 23, 26, 29-31, 33, 35, 38-40, 106-107, 323, cat. no. 13, reproduced;

X. Bray, "Luis Meléndez: Madrid and Dublin, exhibition review," in Burlington Magazine 146, no. 1218 (September 2004), p. 642;

M. Weniger et al., Greco, Velázquez, Goya, Spanische Malerei aus deutschen Sammlungen, exhibition catalogue, Hamburg, Dresden, and Budapest 2005, pp. 146, 247, under cat. no. 64, reproduced;

P. Cherry, Luis Meléndez: Still-life Painter, Madrid 2006, pp. 122, 128, 151, 161, 165-166, 170, 175, 182, 183, 233, 234, 250, 349 note 297, 369 note 7, 537, cat. no. 66, reproduced p. 448;

P. Cherry, in Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, exhibition catalogue, G. Hirschauer and C.A. Metzger (eds.), Washington, D.C. 2009, pp. 20, 25, 26;

N. Seseña, in Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, exhibition catalogue, G. Hirschauer and C.A. Metzger (eds.), Washington, D.C. 2009, pp. 35, 36, 37;

G. Hirschauer and C.A. Metzger, in Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, exhibition catalogue, G. Hirschauer and C.A. Metzger (eds.), Washington, D.C. 2009, pp. 72-73, 84, 166, cat. no. 7, reproduced (with details and an x-ray);

M.R. Harrington, in With Observation and Imagination: Still Lifes, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection, exhibition catalogue, A.K. Wheelock, Jr. (ed.), New York 2021, pp. 96-98, 172-173, cat. no. 21, reproduced.

Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art; Dallas, Meadows Museum; New York, National Academy of Design, Luis Meléndez: Spanish Still-Life Painter of the Eighteenth Century, 12 January - 1 September 1985, no. 8;

Madrid, Museo del Prado, Luis Meléndez: Bodegones, 17 February - 16 May 2004, no. 11;

Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, Luis Meléndez, Still Lifes, 16 June - 5 September 2004, no. 13;

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, 17 May 2009 - 9 May 2010, no. 7;

Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 20 March 2023 - 30 January 2025, no. 21.