A docent's guide to Goya's reclining nude, a maja on pillows and a green velvet bolster, dated between 1799 and 1800. The account stays close to the supplied record: what the painting shows, how the genre of the nude shapes it, and the one documented thread of its early history in the collection of Ferdinand VII in 1807.
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