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Two Majas: Shared Restoration, Different Histories - Spanish C1

How Prado sources separate the material biographies and public histories of two paired paintings.

Las dos majas compartieron restauración, no toda su historia pública

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Alternates both paintings, one of them and for La maja desnuda so evidence from one canvas is not transferred to the other.

The two canvases share provenance and an 1899 restoration, but their nineteenth-century public visibility differed.

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