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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: Dona María Tomasa Palafox, Marquesa de Villafranca

🖼 Dona María Tomasa Palafox, Marquesa de Villafranca, 1804
Oil on canvas
195 × 126 cm
Madrid, Spain

Soft brushwork captures an elegant woman in flowing white silk, her poised stance and direct gaze conveying aristocratic confidence. Goya's portrait exemplifies early 19th-century Spanish nobility portraiture, revealing both the subject's social status and the artist's mastery of psychological presence.

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E. H. Gombrich
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