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Who was the likely patron of Francisco Goya’s The Naked Maja?
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Francisco Goya
Detail of Self-portrait, etching by Francisco Goya from the series Los caprichos, 1799.
It is likely that Francisco Goya painted The Naked Maja for Manuel Godoy, a nobleman who served as the prime minister of Spain.12
Godoy was a known patron of Goya and maintained a private cabinet dedicated to paintings of the female nude, where he displayed the work alongside other notable pieces such as Diego Velázquez’s Venus and Cupid.12