The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, plate 43 from Los Caprichos
Spanish, 1746-1828
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.
Etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper
The Charles Deering Collection
Delteil 80
Harris 78
Gassier and Wilson II.536
Pérez Sánchez & Gállego 43
The Garrotted Man, 1778–80
Los Caprichos, 1797/99, published 1799
Aesop, 1778
Menippus, 1778
Gaspar de Guzman, Conde Duque of Olivares, 1778
The Drunkards, 1778
A Dwarf, 1778
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Painter, plate one from Los Caprichos, 1797/99
Hush, plate 28 from Los Caprichos, 1797/99
What a Tailor Can Do!, plate 52 from Los Caprichos, 1797/99
Until Death, plate 55 from Los Caprichos, 1797/99