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

A seated man rests his head on his arms at a desk while owls, a cat, and winged bats gather around him in a dark, misty sky. The brown etching and aquatint print shows a figure asleep beside a caption inscribed on the lower left.

Artist

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Date

1797/99

Medium

Etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 2595 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, The Charles Deering Collection