- Cronología
- Ca. 1806 - 1812
- Ubicación
- Museum Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur, Switzerland
- Dimensiones
- 45 x 62 cm
- Técnica y soporte
- Oil on canvas
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Undisputed work
- Titular
- Oskar Reinhart Foundation
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 25 Apr 2010 / 15 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- (1937.3)
- Otros títulos:
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Three Slices of Salmon (Tres rodajas de salmón)
For more information, see Pieces of Lamb.
The painting entitled Rounds of Salmon had a number of different owners before it was finally acquired by the Oskar Reinhart Foundation.
This is the most abstract of the paintings in the series of still lifes, and is also the most straightforward, stripped down of the works. In the centre of the picture, Goya has painted three slices of salmon, positioned in a seemingly improvised manner on a table laid with a white tablecloth. The artist has carefully captured the delicate white streaks in the salmon's flesh.
We can see how the scene grows gradually darker the further back we look, creating an atmosphere which is utterly devoid of any spatial reference.
A comparison can be drawn between this painting and the similarly themed work by Luis Egidio Meléndez, A Piece of
Salmon, a Lemon and three Vessels (Un trozo de salmón, un limón y tres vasijas) (1772, Prado Museum, Madrid), although this earlier work features a richer palette of colours as well as a greater variety of objects.
For more information, see Pieces of Lamb.
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GoyaBasle2021p. 255
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 263, cat. 911
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BarcelonaPolígrafa1970vol. I, p. 353, cat. 595
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L’opera pittorica completa di GoyaMilanRizzoli1974p. 123, cat. 507
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Francisco de Goya, 4 vols.ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja1980-1982vol. III, p. 187
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Goya. Arte e condizione umanaNaplesLiguori editore1990pp. 158-160, il. 140
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El bodegón español de Velázquez a GoyaMadridEdiciones El Viso1995pp. 175, 176, 177, 180, 184 y 185 (il.)
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Goya en tiempos de guerraMadridMuseo Nacional del Prado2008pp. 244 (il.) y 247
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Los mundos de Goya (1746-1828)BarcelonaLunwerg2008pp. 159-160