The Colossus

El Coloso ("The Colossus") is a celebrated painting that was attributed to Francisco de Goya. In 2008 the Prado Museum issued a report in which it declared that the painting was "almost with all safety" a work of one of the famous painter's disciples, Asensio Juliá. In January 2009 Manuela Mena, an expert which is studying the works of Francisco de Goya for twenty years took the final decision that it was painted by Asensio Juliá It was painted s... more

El Coloso ("The Colossus") is a celebrated painting that was attributed to Francisco de Goya. In 2008 the Prado Museum issued a report in which it declared that the painting was "almost with all safety" a work of one of the famous painter's disciples, Asensio Juliá. In January 2009 Manuela Mena, an expert which is studying the works of Francisco de Goya for twenty years took the final decision that it was painted by Asensio Juliá It was painted sometime between 1808 and 1812, the year in which it passed into the possession of de Goya's son, Javier Goya. Subsequently, it belonged to Pedro Fernández Durán, who bequeathed his collection to the Prado Museum, where it has been kept since 1931. Since 2001, two experts havce put in doubt the belief that it was Goya who painted it. In 2001, Juliet Bareau-Wilson had already declared that El Coloso had not been painted by Goya, but by his son, Javier Goya. However, Nigel Glendinning rejected these theories that deny the Goyan authority for... less