Still Life with Apples, Grapes, Melons, Bread, Jug and Bottle, Luis Meléndez
Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museu Nacional D’Arte De Catalunya.
Here is another beautiful still life by 17th century Spanish master Luis Egidio Meléndez.
I’m particularly fascinated in this arrangement by the dark bottle and equally dark grapes as a counterpoint to the more prominent foreground objects. The entire composition seems to play with light against dark and dark against light, though for the most part with subtle variations in value.
