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The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, plate 43 from Los Caprichos
Francisco José de Goya y LucientesLinkedCulture matchlcp-996a1e74ef53
- Date
- 1797/99
- Medium
- Etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 44743
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
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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- The Charles Deering Collection
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- Object type
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