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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: Still-Life: A Butcher’s Counter

🖼 Still-Life: A Butcher’s Counter, 1810-12
Oil on canvas
45 × 62 cm
Paris, France

Raw meat and offal sprawl across a marble counter in loose brushstrokes, rendered with unflinching realism. Goya elevates humble butcher's shop detritus into dignified still life, challenging artistic hierarchy and celebrating ordinary Spanish life with unprecedented brutality.

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