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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: The Clothed Maja (La Maja Vestida)

🖼 The Clothed Maja (La Maja Vestida), 1800-03
Oil on canvas
97 × 190 cm
Madrid, Spain

Soft brushwork renders a reclining woman in elegant dress, posed provocatively on cushioned silk against warm ochre tones. This painting challenged Spanish propriety and remains paired with its nude counterpart, questioning desire, censorship, and female representation in eighteenth-century art.

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E. H. Gombrich
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