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Erisava Staff 6d ago

Majas on a Balcony by Francisco Goya, 1808

Majas on a Balcony

Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org

Public domain

The museum doesn't seem certain this is actually his. There's a very close version of the same scene elsewhere and, from what I've read, people have argued for a century about which came first and who painted which. The two young women are majas — a working-class Madrid style that rich families copied.