It is the workhttp://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/ferdinand-guillemardet-1765-1809 of a colourist of temperament who sees the tones of nature in all their richness, and who knows how to paint them in their true affinity. Never has a French artist placed in such harmonious relation the three national colours. Goya has thrown the hat with the tricoloured plumes on to a yellow table, against the tricoloured scarf of a person seated on a yellow chair, and clothed entirely in blue. These dissonances mingle in a brilliant concerto which sounds softly to the ear. We forget to notice that the head takes the aspect of a piece of red stained glass by reason of over-reflection. The colours live as if shown through transparent water, or touched by the capricious play of light.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "It is the workhttp://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/ferdinand-guillemardet-1765-1809 of a colourist of temperament who sees the tones of nature in all their richness, and who knows how to paint them in their true affinity. Never has a French artist placed in such harmonious relation the three national colours. Goya has thrown the hat with the tricoloured plumes on to a yellow table, against the tricoloured scarf of a person seated on a yellow chair, and clothed entirely in blue. These dissonances mingle in a brilliant concerto which sounds softly to the ear. We forget to notice that the head takes the aspect of a piece of red stained glass by reason of over-reflection. The colours live as if shown through transparent water, or touched by the capricious play of light." in the context of "Quote of Léon Lagrange in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1865; as cited in Francisco Goya, Hugh Stokes, Herbert Jenkins Limited Publishers, London, 1914, p. 238-39
• The work was a great portrait of The ambassador of the French Republic to Spain in 1798http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/ferdinand-guillemardet-1765-1809: Francois Guillemardet, which Goya himself believed to be his best work. In 1865 it was acquired from Guillemardet's heirs by the authorities of the Louvre museum in Paris" to mean that wisdom is timeless.