I've posted about this painting, considered among the most beautiful in the world, but just re-encountered it while reading David Lodge's Deaf Sentence - which is hilarious and poignant, etc. The protagonist, a retired linguist*, is going deaf. Trying to deal, he studies some artists who completed some of their greatest work after they suffered profound or total deafness: Beethoven and Goya. Some see this art work, one of his Black Paintings, as Goya's response to his condition.
(Image: www.owlnet.rice.edu.)
*and there I was fresh from my semiotics course and totally up on my Austen.
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