The artist may have been inspired by Peter Paul Rubens’s Baroque portrayal of the myth, Saturn Devouring His Son (1636). Goya, by then in his 70s and having survived two life-threatening illnesses, is likely to have been anxious about his own mortality. Taking the myth as a starting point, the painting may be about God’s wrath, the conflict between old age and youth, or Saturn as Time devouring all things. The haunting Saturn illustrates the myth of the Roman god Saturn, who, fearing that his children would overthrow him, ate them. They were not intended to be shown to the public, and only later were the pictures lifted from the walls, transferred to canvas, and deposited in the Prado.
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The artist painted directly on to the plaster walls of the Quinta the series of psychologically brooding images popularly known as the “black” paintings (1819–23). A previous owner of the house was deaf, and the name remained apt as Goya himself had lost his hearing in his mid-40s. In 1819 Francisco Goya bought a house west of Madrid called the Quinta del sordo (“Villa of the deaf man”).
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