The Colossus (Spanish: El Coloso) is a painting at one time attributed to Francisco de Goya, but now believed to have been painted by an apprentice, probably Asensio Juliá

Asensio Juliá

Asensio Julià i Alvarracín was a Spanish painter and engraver best known as a student and follower of Francisco Goya. In 2008, The Colossus, a work long associated with Goya, was re-attributed to Juliá by specialists at the Museo del Prado. The attribution is generally but not universally...

. In January 2009, the Museo del Prado

Museo del Prado

The Museo del Prado is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It features one of the world's finest collections of European art, from the 12th century to the early 19th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection, and unquestionably the best single collection of...

 reported that an investigation of the painting's authorship had proved inconclusive: "The findings to this date do not confirm that the author was Juliá, the painting can only be attributed to a follower of Goya".

The Colossus was painted between 1808 and 1812.