"After public outrage over a painting by Goya of a nude woman (""the first totally profane life-size female nude in Western art""), he refused to paint clothes on her, and created a new painting of the same woman in the same pose, clothed. The paintings are known as ""The Nude ... "" what and ""The Clothed ..."" what?"
La maja desnuda La maja desnuda The Nude Maja ( ) is a name given to a c. 1797–1800 oil on canvas painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya. It portrays a nude woman reclining on a bed of pillows, and was probably commissioned by Manuel de Godoy, to hang in his private collection in a separate cabinet reserved for nude paintings. Goya created a pendant of the same woman identically posed, but clothed, known today as "La maja vestida" ("The Clothed Maja"); also in the Prado, it is usually hung next to "La maja desnuda". The subject is identified as a maja
The Boucher Nude (1957) purchased by the National Gallery of Victoria and "Nude with two chairs" (1957) acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, both directly from this initial exhibition. With what has been described as his "characteristic irony", Brack painted his thin dark-haired modelthe only one to respond to his advertisementin "the pose of the more voluptuous Mademoiselle O'Murphy, in François Boucher’s "L’Odalisque" (c.1745)"" In 2008, the painting was sold for AUD1,500,000. The Boucher Nude The Boucher Nude is a 1957 painting by Australian artist John Brack. The painting is a nude, depicting a woman lying on a sofa. Sasha