Epigones is the name for satellite artists whose personality is eclipsed by the resplendent fame of the great masters they assist. Antiquity called Epigoni the sons of the seven chiefs who died before Thebes.” The Spanish art critic Tormo began his few paragraphs on Goya's favorite pupil and assistant Esteve with these words. In spite of Tormo's1 and Sentenach's2 emphasis on the exceptional interest of Esteve, nobody has accepted the challenge to resurrect him from the dead.