
by Francisco Goya, 1800
Francisco Goya painted The Clothed Maja between 1800 and 1807 as a companion to his earlier Nude Maja. The same woman reclines on the same green velvet cushions, but now wears a white empire-waist gown, yellow jacket, and pink sash. Her direct gaze remains unchanged.
Prime Minister Manuel de Godoy owned both paintings. According to legend, he hung them so the clothed version could be raised by pulleys to reveal the nude beneath. When Napoleon's brother Joseph inventoried Godoy's collection in 1808, they were listed as "Naked Gypsy" and "Clothed Gypsy." The model's identity remains unknown, though speculation centers on the Duchess of Alba or Godoy's mistress Pepita Tudó.
The canvas measures 95 by 190 centimeters and hangs at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, displayed beside its nude twin. The Spanish Inquisition seized both paintings from 1814 to 1836 for indecency. Art historian Janis Tomlinson notes the clothed version is actually more "brazen," the figure pressing boldly against the frame.
Other masterpieces from the Romanticism movement

John Constable, 1821
National Gallery, London

Théodore Géricault, 1819
Louvre, Paris, Paris

Eugène Delacroix, 1834
Louvre, Paris, Paris

J.M.W. Turner, 1839
National Gallery, London

Jean-François Millet, 1859
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Jean-François Millet, 1857
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Eugène Delacroix, 1827
Louvre, Paris, Paris

Thomas Cole, 1842
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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