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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: Cardinal Luís María de Borbón y Vallabriga

🖼 Cardinal Luís María de Borbón y Vallabriga, 1798-1800
Oil on canvas
200 × 106 cm
São Paulo, Brazil

Scarlet robes dominate this portrait, rendered with fluid brushwork that captures the cardinal's dignified presence against a shadowed background. Goya's intimate psychological insight reveals the subject's authority and contemplative nature, exemplifying early 19th-century Spanish court portraiture at its peak.

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E. H. Gombrich
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