La maja desnuda
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painting by Francisco de Goya.
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Key facts
- Artist
- Francisco Goya
- Year
- 1797–1800
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 97 cm × 190 cm (38 in × 75 in)
- Location
- Museo del Prado , Madrid
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- painting
- Owned by
- Spain
- Genre
- portrait
- Country of origin
- Spain
- Movement
- Romanticism
- Material used
- canvas
- Creator
- Francisco Goya
- Collection
- Museo del Prado
- Location
- Museo del Prado
- Image
- Maja desnuda (museo del Prado).jpg
- Height
- 98
- Width
- 191
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- pendant of
- The Clothed Maja
- Commons category
- La Maja Desnuda
- inception
- 1795-01-01
- title
- La maja desnuda
- catalog code
- 743
- inventory number
- P000742
- copyright status
- public domain
- time period
- Romanticism
- depicts Iconclass notation
- 31A2421
- native label
- La maja desnuda
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Encyclopedic overview
The Naked Maja or The Nude Maja (Spanish: La maja desnuda [la ˈmaxa ðesˈnuða]) is an oil-on-canvas painting made around 1797–1800 by the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya, and has been in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1901. It portrays a nude woman reclining on a bed of pillows, and was probably commissioned by Manuel de Godoy, to hang in his private collection in a separate cabinet reserved for nude paintings. Goya created a pendant of the same woman identically posed, but clothed, known today as La maja vestida (The Clothed Maja), also in the Prado, and usually hung next to La maja desnuda. The subject is identified as a maja or fashionable lower-class Madrid woman, based on her costume in La maja vestida.
The painting is renowned for the straightforward and unashamed gaze of the model towards the viewer. It has also been cited as among the earliest Western artwork to depict a nude woman's pubic hair without obvious negative connotations (such as in images of prostitutes). With this work Goya not only upset the ecclesiastical authorities, but also titillated the public and extended the artistic horizon of the day.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “La maja desnuda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.