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The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda)
Luis Meléndez (Spanish, Naples 1716–1780 Madrid)
ca. 1772
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 41 1/2 x 60 1/2 in. (105.4 x 153.7 cm)
- Culture
- Spanish
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, European Paintings
- Credit line
- The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
