Majas on a Balcony ca. 1800–1810 Attributed to Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) Spanish The theme of women on a balcony overseen by watchful, somewhat threatening male companions resulted in one of Goya’s most powerful paintings, today in a private collection and dated around 1810. This painting is sometimes considered a variant composition, its attribution questioned by some experts. Expressively and stylistically, however, the two paintings are quite different. Goya’s innovative composition in which balcony and picture plane overlap was taken up by Edouard Manet to explore urban life in
Majas on a Balcony ca. 1800–1810 Attributed to Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) Spanish The theme of women on a balcony overseen by watchful, somewhat threatening male companions resulted in one of Goya’s most powerful paintings, today in a private collection and dated around 1810. This painting is sometimes considered a variant composition, its attribution questioned by some experts. Expressively and stylistically, however, the two paintings are quite different. Goya’s innovative composition in which balcony and picture plane overlap was taken up by Edouard Manet to explore urban life in the late Majas on a Balcony. Attributed to Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux). ca. 1800–1810. Oil on canvas. Paintings
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