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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: The Milkmaid of Bordeaux

🖼 The Milkmaid of Bordeaux, 1825-27
Oil on canvas
74 × 68 cm
Madrid, Spain

Soft brushwork and muted tones render a solitary woman pouring milk, her form emerging from shadowy surroundings. Created in Goya's final years, this intimate domestic scene reveals his revolutionary late style—abandoning narrative grandeur for psychological depth and modern technique.

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E. H. Gombrich
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