What is the title of Goya's painting of a giant eating his son?

The title of Goya’s painting of a giant eating his son is “Saturn Devouring His Son.”

Francisco Goya painted the work directly onto the wall of his house near Madrid between about 1820 and 1823. It belongs to the fourteen “Black Paintings,” a private group made late in his life and not commissioned for public exhibition. The image is now in the Museo del Prado after the mural was transferred to canvas.

The traditional interpretation identifies the giant as Saturn, the Roman counterpart of the Greek Titan Cronus. According to myth, Cronus swallowed his children because he feared a prophecy that one of them would overthrow him. His wife Rhea saved Jupiter by giving Cronus a stone wrapped in cloth instead.

The title is canonical, but Goya himself did not supply it. Names for the Black Paintings were assigned after his death, and some scholars question whether the figure is definitively Saturn or whether the victim is even his son. That uncertainty does not make “Saturn Devouring His Son” an unfair quiz answer: it is the established English title.