The Afternoon Meal (in Spanish, La Merienda[3]) is a mid-eighteenth-century still life painting by Spanish painter[1] Luis Egidio Meléndez (1716–1780).

[5] 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 ogee frame with sculpted Rococo corners and shallow-relief details,[2] collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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