It is held in the Museo del Prado, in Madrid, which bought it in London in 1954.

[1] The titan Cronus is personified as the inexorable Time that devours everything, only occasionally stopped or defeated by Love, Beauty and Hope.

[2] Time, with the scythe of death and an hourglass, is brought down by Beauty and Hope, helped by some putti, who attack the old man on the ground, in a humorous way, biting and plucking his wings.

A wreath of flowers identifies Hope, wearing a brown dress, who uses an anchor, while a naked and smiling Beauty, for whom Vouet is believed to have used his wife, Virginia Vezzi, as a model, helds a spear in his direction, and is also pulling out some of his hair.

The scene has for background a rock and some trees while to the right extends a landscape with the sea visible in the distance.