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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: The Quail Shoot

🖼 The Quail Shoot, 1775
Oil on canvas
290 × 226 cm
Madrid, Spain

Golden light bathes a hunting party frozen mid-action across windswept terrain, rendered in fluid brushwork with remarkable spatial depth. Goya captures aristocratic leisure with psychological complexity, foreshadowing his later darker vision through tension between refined society and nature's indifference.

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E. H. Gombrich
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