''The Afternoon Meal'' (in Spanish, ''La Merienda'') is a mid-eighteenth-century still life painting by Spanish painter Luis Egidio Meléndez (1716–1780). It was created around 1772. 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

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corners and shallow-relief details, collected by the

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an Encyclopedic museum, encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the List of largest museums, third-largest museum in the world and the List of larg ...

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