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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: Still-Life with Three Salmon Steaks

🖼 Still-Life with Three Salmon Steaks, 1808-12
Oil on canvas
45 × 62 cm
Winterthur, Switzerland

Three salmon steaks rendered in luminous pinks and silvers against dark canvas, their flesh depicted with anatomical precision and painterly freedom. Goya elevates humble kitchen fare to high art, challenging 18th-century genre hierarchies through masterful observation of light, color, and texture.

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The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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