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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: Birds of a Feather

🖼 Birds of a Feather, 1799
Etching and aquatint
200 × 151 cm
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Soft brushwork captures two figures huddled together against a muted background, their intimacy conveyed through gesture and proximity. Goya's satirical commentary on human folly and social pretense reveals his mastery of psychological portraiture during Spain's turbulent late eighteenth century.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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