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Basket of Wild Strawberries in a Landscape
Luis Melendez abandoned the dark, austere interiors of the older Spanish still-life tradition for the open air. Here, a basket of wild strawberries has been placed next to some strawberry plants on a hillside, some of them silhouetted against the blue sky and lively clouds. The surrounding countryside and Melendez’s always accurate representation of berries and plants tell us that this picture was…
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Providing institution
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- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Nationalmuseum, Sweden
Provenance
- Purchased 1992, Sophia Giesecke Fund
Identifier
- NM 6869
- 23918
Extent
- Mått 36,5 x 59,5 cm
Format
- Oil on canvas
- Oil painting
Providing country
- Sweden
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2017-01-11T14:09:34.830Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2017-01-11T14:27:08.076Z