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How much is Saturn Devouring His Son worth?

Saturn Devouring His Son is not for sale: it is held by the Museo del Prado, Madrid, so it has no market price. The closest guide is Goya's highest documented sale: $16.4 million for Portraits of Doña María Vicenta Barruso Valdés and Doña Leonora Antonia Valdés de Barruso, at Christie's New York in 2023. Prints and posters of it usually sell for $5–$250, and hand-painted copies for $100–$800.

Artist: Francisco Goya
Date: 1823
Medium: Oil mural transferred to canvas
Held by: Museo del Prado, Madrid

Goya's record$16.4MPortraits of Doña María Vicenta Barruso Valdés and Doña Leonora Antonia Valdés de Barruso · 2023

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Most copies of Saturn Devouring His Son in homes are prints, posters or hand-painted copies. They sell as decorative pieces, not as Goya's work. These are the resale ranges Art Scanner's value estimate starts from.

Poster or unframed print$5–$60

Framed decorative or museum-shop print$40–$250

Large framed archival print$150–$800

Hand-painted copy$100–$800

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About the painting

Saturn Devouring His Son is a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. The work is one of the 14 so-called Black Paintings that Goya painted directly on the walls of his house some time between 1820 and 1823. It was transferred to canvas after Goya's death and is now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.

More on the artist: the most expensive Goya ever sold, and where the famous ones hang.

Goya next to other famous artists

Each artist's highest documented sale, from the same research. Goya: $16.4 million for Portraits of Doña María Vicenta Barruso Valdés and Doña Leonora Antonia Valdés de Barruso, in 2023.

Michelangelo$27.2MStudy for the right foot of the Libyan Sibyl · 2026
Sargent$23.5MGroup with Parasols · 2004
Toulouse-Lautrec$22.4MLa Blanchisseuse · 2005
Velázquez$17MSaint Rufina · 2007
Goya$16.4MPortraits of Doña María Vicenta Barruso Valdés and Doña Leonora Antonia Valdés de Barruso · 2023
El Greco$14MSaint Dominic in Prayer · 2013
Delacroix$9.88MTigre jouant avec une tortue · 2018
Corot$9.01MVenise, vue du Quai des Esclavons · 2018
Waterhouse$9MSt Cecilia · 2000

Nominal US dollars as reported at the time of sale, buyer's premium included where the source includes it.

Why it has no price

Saturn Devouring His Son is held by the Museo del Prado, Madrid. Works in public collections are not sold, so no one can put a market price on them. Sale records of other works by the same artist are the closest guide to what it would fetch.

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Questions

How much is Saturn Devouring His Son worth?

Saturn Devouring His Son is not for sale: it is held by the Museo del Prado, Madrid, so it has no market price. The closest guide is Goya's highest documented sale: $16.4 million for Portraits of Doña María Vicenta Barruso Valdés and Doña Leonora Antonia Valdés de Barruso, at Christie's New York in 2023. Prints and posters of it usually sell for $5–$250, and hand-painted copies for $100–$800.

How much is a print of Saturn Devouring His Son worth?

Most prints and posters of Saturn Devouring His Son sell for $5–$250, with framed ones at the top of that range, and hand-painted copies for $100–$800. They are priced as decorative pieces, not as Goya's work.

Is Saturn Devouring His Son for sale?

No. It is held by the Museo del Prado, Madrid. Works in public collections are not sold, so they have no market price.

What is Goya's most expensive work?

Portraits of Doña María Vicenta Barruso Valdés and Doña Leonora Antonia Valdés de Barruso, which sold for $16.4 million at Christie's New York in 2023. Prices are nominal US dollars as reported at the time.

Where is Saturn Devouring His Son?

Saturn Devouring His Son (1823, oil mural transferred to canvas) is held by the Museo del Prado, Madrid.