Goya is the preeminent painter of monsters—appropriate for a man painting in the period in which Napoleon, chaos and his totalitarian state overtook Goya’s native Spain.
He calls this figure Colossus.* We might call it Leviathan.
* NB: Recent research suggests the work itself was mapped out by Goya, but painted by an apprentice.
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