Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Francisco de Goya y Lucientes - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos.jpg

File:Francisco de Goya y Lucientes - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos.jpg, not featured

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•  Info created by Francisco Goya, - uploaded by Crisco 1492 - nominated by Crisco 1492 -- Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:01, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Support -- Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:01, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Support -- Jkadavoor (talk) 06:48, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Support Useful, important piece of art, good quality. --Paolo Costa (talk) 19:34, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Oppose – I'm sorry, but I don't believe this file is faithful enough to the original painting to be Featured. Overall the shadows look too weak and it seems like the background was opened: compare the shadows on the rear wall to the black breeches. Jovellanos' flesh seems much too pale, and the background hues are heavily casted green, to an extent that is certainly unsuited to the golden statue of Minerva. This plate was prepared by Taschen: although the GoogleBooks image is lo-res, it can give a good idea of the range of variation between this nomination and the original art. SteveStrummer (talk) 21:44, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

•  Question have you seen the original painting to compare? It may have changed colour over time What makes us sure Taschen didn't retouch the image? Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:12, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

I have not been to the Prado in over 20 years and my personal recollections are not helpful for this, but Taschen is regarded as the world's foremost publisher of art books and is famously exacting in its reproductions. SteveStrummer (talk) 23:20, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

•  Oppose - better reproduction possible - some colour deviation, lighting sub-optimal (reflections). per Steve. --Claritas (talk) 20:03, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

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Result: 3 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 18:33, 31 May 2012 (UTC)