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La maja vestida (The Clothed Maja) by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish) - Oil on canvas / 1800-1807 - Museo Nacional del Prado (Madrid) #womeninart #art #goya #oilpainting #womensart #MuseoNacionaldelPrado #portraitofawoman #SpanishArt #artwork #FranciscoGoya #FranciscodeGoyayLucientes
“La maja vestida” (The Clothed Maja) is an oil painting on canvas created between 1800 and 1807 by the Spanish Romantic painter and printmaker Francisco Goya. It is a clothed version of the earlier “La maja desnuda,” which was created between 1795 and 1800. An unidentified curvaceous fair-skinned lady wearing delicate transparent snow white clothing and a golden yellow jacket with black decorations lies on a light green velvet divan with cushions and a spread. There has been a great variety of opinions as to who the sitter is, but her anonymity is maintained in all of the inventories listing this work. Legend claims she was Goya’s rumored mistress Duchess of Alba, although some have identified her as Pepita Tudó, the mistress from 1797 of Manuel Godoy, Prince of Peace and the First Secretary of State of Spain. This painting is first mentioned in 1808 along with its companion, La maja desnuda, in the inventory of the property of Manuel Godoy carried out by Frédéric Quillet, an agent of José Bonaparte during the French occupation of Spain. In 1813, the two Majas are described as Gypsies in the inventory of Godoy´s properties confiscated by King Fernando VII. The paintings were considered by the French ruling class to be "obscene.” The clothed version is more summarily painted than the nude work, which has more subtle transparencies and tonal gradations, as well as some differences in the position of the figure. This work entered the Prado Museum in 1901 by way of the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, where it had been from 1808 to 1813, and again from 1836 to 1901. In the hiatus between those two periods, it was sequestered by the Inquisition.
March 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM