The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (El Sueno de la Razon Produce Monstruos), plate 43; from the series The Caprices (Los Caprichos)
Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746 - 1828
1797; published 1799
Etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper
First edition, published in 1799
Overall: 8 1/2 × 6 in. (21.6 × 15.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a gift from Dorothy and Jerome R. Goldstein, Class of 1954
PR.986.26
Geography
Place Made: Spain, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Course History
FILM 47, From The Fall of the Wall to 9-11: Understanding the New World Disorder, Mark Williams, James Nachtwey, Spring 2013
ARTH 49, European Art in the Age of Revolution (1750-1850), Katie Hornstein, Fall 2013
SPAN 31, Introduction to Hispanic Studies II: 18th and 19th Centuries, Jose del Pino, Winter 2014
SPAN 31, Introduction to Hispanic Studies II: 18th and 19th Centuries, Txetxu Aguado, Winter 2014
SART 27, 28, 74, Printmaking I-Intaglio, II, III, Ariel Frieberg, Spring 2015
ARTH 50, Romanticism, Kristin O'Rourke, Spring 2015
ARTH 50, Romanticism, Kristin O'Rourke, Spring 2015
COLT 7.13, “You Must Be Dreaming”: Dreams in Literature and Film, Paul Carranza, Spring 2015
ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2020
ENGL 23.01, Romantic Literature: Aesthetics and Ideology from the French Revolution to ,, Winter 2021
ENGL 2.01, Literary History II, Michael Chaney, Winter 2021
ARTH 81.03, The Viral Image, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Winter 2022
SART 20/SART 71, Drawing II/Drawing III, Jack Wilson, Fall 2022
SPAN 65.12, Reading Spain with Goya, Sara Munoz, Fall 2022
Spanish 31.01, Introduction to Hispanic Literature II, Sebastian Diaz, Winter 2023
Exhibition History
A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth Century European Prints from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 9, 1995-February 4, 1996, no. 55.
A Space for Dialogue 87, The Tortured Soul: Exploring the Excesses of Human Emotion, Laura Dorn, Class of 2015, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 11-May 24, 2015.
Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 9, 1994-April 11, 1995.
An Introduction of the History of Art from the Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 12-March 15, 1992.
Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-February 12, 1990.
Old Master Prints from the Dartmouth Collection, Friends and Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-April 10, 1988.
Reality and its Alternatives, Art History 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 4-March 13, 2005.
The Art of Spectatoriship: A History of Viewing from the Renaissance to the Present Day, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 19-April 6, 2008.
Virtual Space for Dialogue, 2017, Self (Hood), Alison Guh, Class of 2017, Mellon Special Prjects Intern, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. https://www.aguh.vsfd.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/
Publication History
Richard Rand, "A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth-Century European Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, no. 55.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 90, ill. p. 92, fig. 60.
Provenance
Denenberg Fine Arts, Inc.; sold to present collection, 1986.
Catalogue Raisonne
Harris 78; Delteil 80; Gassier and Wilson II.536; Pérez Sánchez & Gállego 43
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