# Still-Life of Fruit [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MELÉNDEZ, Luis]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 38 x 50 cm ## Commentary In 1771 the artist received a commission from the young Prince of Asturias, the future Charles IV, to paint a series of still-lifes to decorate his cabinet of natural history, a private museum in his quarters in the Royal Palace. He executed a series of forty four still-lifes \(now in various museums\). The present work represents a still-life of apricots in a ceramic bowl, with branches of apricots and their foliage protruding outwards, together with cherries and a single branch of apricots, all arranged upon a plain table top. It was almost certainly painted the year after the artist's completion of the majority of the series of still-lifes for the Prince of Asturias, in 1773. ## Related artworks - [Fruit of the Strawberry Tree]() - [Portrait of the Artist]() - [Still-Life of Fruit]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life with Cantaloup Melon]() - [Still-Life with Figs]() - [Still-Life with Fruit and a Jar]() - [Still-Life with Melon and Pears]() - [Still-Life with Oranges and Walnuts]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()