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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: Two Women Eating

🖼 Two Women Eating, 1821-23
Oil on plaster mounted on canvas
53 × 85 cm
Madrid, Spain

Two figures hunched over a meal, rendered in muted earth tones with loose brushwork that captures intimate domestic realism. Goya's unflinching portrayal of ordinary women eating challenges aristocratic decorum, pioneering modern social observation in Spanish art.

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