El sueño de la razon produce monstruos (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters)
Francisco Goya · published 1799 · etching and aquatint on laid paper
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About this picture
El sueño de la razon produce monstruos (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters) is a public-domain illustration by Francisco Goya, dated published 1799. Etching and aquatint on laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
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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