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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: Les Vieilles or Time and the Old Women

🖼 Les Vieilles or Time and the Old Women, 1810-12
Oil on canvas
181 × 125 cm
Lille, France

Shadowy figures huddle around a mirror in murky interior space, rendered with loose brushwork and acidic color. Goya's satirical commentary on vanity and aging exposes society's obsession with beauty and youth, challenging Enlightenment ideals through grotesque psychological realism.

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E. H. Gombrich
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