Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
Spanish, 1746-1828
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, plate 43 from Los Caprichos
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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
Spanish, 1746-18281797/99
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, plate 43 from Los Caprichos
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes Spanish, 1746-1828 →etchingprint
Date
1797/99
Medium
Etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 18 × 12 cm (7 1/8 × 4 3/4 in.); Plate: 21.2 × 15 cm (8 3/8 × 5 15/16 in.); Sheet: 30.3 × 19.8 cm (11 15/16 × 7 13/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The Charles Deering Collection
Hovering between the grotesque and the comical, Francisco de Goya’s series Los caprichos (Whims or Fantasies) consists of 80 etchings satirizing Spanish society during the late 18th century. For this iconic image, which may have been intended as the title page of the series, Goya represented himself as an artist who has fallen asleep at his drawing table. In the background are his nightmares, the macabre tormenters that pervade the rest of these prints.
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