Lot 1250. Luis Melendez, attributed (1716 Naples - 1780 Madrid), Still life with medlars in a basket, pears and hunted birds. Oil on canvas, 42 x 67.5 cm. Estimate: € 60000-80000. Photo Hampel.

Accompanied by an expert's report by Professor John Spike. 

Provenance: Niccolò Monteri Collection, Consul of Oporto between 1815 and 1817. 
European private collection. 

Literature: A. Cottino, Novità sull'attività giovanile di Luis Meléndez, in: V. Terraroli, F. Varallo and L. De Fanti (eds.), L'arte nella storia. Contributi di critica e storia dell'arte by Gianni Carlo Sciolla, Milan 2000, pp. 165-170. 
J. Spike, Luis Meléndez. The still lifes, 2002 (printed pamphlet advertising the printing of a book did what due to be published in March 2002). 
M. Gregori, JG Prince of Hohenzollern (eds.), A. Cottino. In silence world Italian still life. Arcimboldo, Caravaggio, Strozzi, exhibition catalog, Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo Cultural Foundation, 6 December 2002-23 February 2003 pp. 464-465. 
M. Gregori (ed.), La natura morta italiana. Da Caravaggio al Settecento, exhibition catalog Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 26 June - 12 October, 2003, pp. 464-465.

Hampel. Wednesday, December 7, 2016