The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, plate 43 from Los Caprichos
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes · 1797/99 · Etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper
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About this picture
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, plate 43 from Los Caprichos is a public-domain illustration by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, dated 1797/99. Etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
Plate 43 of Los Caprichos, published in 1799. The artist sleeps at his desk while owls and bats gather, and the caption reads that the sleep of reason produces monsters. Museums hold different impressions of this plate.
About the artist
Francisco Goya (1746–1828) was a Spanish court painter who also made the Caprichos and the Disasters of War. The late pictures and prints are darker and more private than the portraits.
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