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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos

🖼 Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, 1798
Oil on canvas
205 × 133 cm
Madrid, Spain

Soft light models the sitter's thoughtful face as he reclines in an armchair, rendered with Goya's penetrating psychological insight. Jovellanos, Spain's enlightenment reformer, emerges as intellectually dignified yet introspective—Goya captures the tension between public authority and private contemplation.

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