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The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, plate 43 from Los Caprichos

Francisco Goya · 1797/99

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Artist

Francisco Goya
Spanish, 1746-1828

Date

1797/99

Type

Print

Medium

Etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper

Size

Image: 18 × 12 cm (7 1/8 × 4 3/4 in.); Plate: 21.2 × 15 cm (8 3/8 × 5 15/16 in.); Sheet: 30.3 × 19.8 cm (11 15/16 × 7 13/16 in.)

Place

Spain

Period

18th century

Main colour

White & cream · lightness 76, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, The Charles Deering Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules