Saturn Devouring His Son
Saturn's mouth couldn't belong to a human. The jaw hinge sits at the temple, not at the ear; the opening is wider than any human anatomy. Goya gave Saturn a wolf's mandible on a man's skull. The painting was made on the dining-room wall of his country house outside Madrid and was discovered after his death. Never titled, never described in his correspondence, never meant to be seen. Now at Museo del Prado, Madrid @museodelprado
- Artist
- Francisco Goya (1746 to 1828)
- Date
- 1823
- Medium
- Mixed media on plaster, transferred to canvas
- Dimensions
- 143.5 × 81.4 cm
- Collection
- Museo del Prado, Madrid
- Image
- Wikimedia Commons · Public domain