A young woman in a tight white dress, short jacket and pink sash reclines on green cushions and looks straight at us. Goya painted this clothed version after The Nude Maja, and the pair first surface in 1808 in the seized collection of the minister Manuel Godoy. Whether she is the Duchess of Alba or Godoy's mistress Pepita Tudó is still debated.
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Compare her with her nude twin: the same pose, arms folded behind the head, but here the dress is painted with loose, quick strokes. The Inquisition seized both pictures in 1814.
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