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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M4343
People
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish (Fuendetodos 1746 - 1828 Bordeaux)
Title
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Los Caprichos, 43
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
18th century
Culture
Spanish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/259790

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
plate: 21.3 x 15.2 cm (8 3/8 x 6 in.)
sheet: 30.8 x 20.5 cm (12 1/8 x 8 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left, in plate: el sueño/de la razon/produce/monstruos
  • inscription: verso, bottom center, graphite: Le sommeil de la raison enfante des monstres/The sleep of reason sometimes gives birth to ghosts/1st. st./Del.80

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1929

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/ii
Standard Reference Number
Del. 80; H. 78, III, 1

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Philip Hofer
Accession Year
1929
Object Number
M4343
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edouard Kopp, Elizabeth M. Rudy, and Kristel Smentek, ed., Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022)

Exhibition History

  • DISSENT!, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/11/2006 - 02/25/2007

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project
  • Collection Highlights

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