Maybe the scenes in the Caprices in which the old sell or corrupt their charges tell us no more about him than that he was a sharp social satirist. His witches' sabbaths where babies and foetuses are roasted are not proof that he assumed, even unconsciously, that all women would rather eat than feed children. Love is exceptional. A loving care is portrayed in the painting made in 119 of The Last Communion of Sanjoside Calasanz . The mouth plays a role in Goya's art more prominent than in that of any other major artist.
Mouths leer, grin, gape, gasp, moan, shriek, belch.
A hanged man's mouth lies open and a woman reaches up to filch his teeth. Grown men stick fingers in their mouths like sucking infants. Mouths vomit, the sick gushing out of them, and a great furry beast sicks up a pile of human bodies. Saturn grips one of his children in his fists and with his mouth tears him limb from limb. Goya's version shows a bleeding remnant of a body, one of its stumps entering the hoary giant's gaping mouth.