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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: Plucked Turkey

🖼 Plucked Turkey, 1812
Oil on canvas
45 × 62 cm
Munich, Germany

Rendered in muted ochres and greys, a plucked turkey dominates the canvas—stripped, vulnerable, geometrically composed against bare ground. Goya's stark study of animal mortality challenges Enlightenment ideals, transforming kitchen still-life into unsettling commentary on violence and bodily exposure.

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E. H. Gombrich
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