Goya certainly is one of the greats. His form can be recognized often in the space he portrays. His content in his realism is not so much like Valazquez' truthfulness of figuration, but more in the way one knows Goya had actually seen this and translated it into an expressive equivalent. He is in the background of Picasso to a very deep extent but rarely directly quoted as Manet, or El Greco are.
I've thought this painting of his daughter Paulette was somewhat like a Goya in what I say above, and also this portrait of his wife Lisette as well--
This Goya at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts always makes me think of Paul.
