Advanced Search 
Copy of plate 43 from Goya's Caprichos
The sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (El sueño de razon produce monstruos)
Copy of plate 43 from Goya's Caprichos
about 1824–30
Medium/Technique
Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper, mounted on wove paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 19.8 × 17.4 cm (7 13/16 × 6 13/16 in.)
Mount: 24.4 × 22.3 cm (9 5/8 × 8 3/4 in.)
Mount: 24.4 × 22.3 cm (9 5/8 × 8 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Joseph F. McCrindle Endowment Fund for Drawings
Accession Number2019.58
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Fayos-Perez (Appendix 2) 35
Marks
Delacroix atelier stamp in LR
Provenance1864, Delacroix atelier (L. 838a); February 22-29, 1864, Delacroix atelier sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, probably included in lot 640 [see note 1]. William Rothenstein (b. 1872 – d. 1945), London; by descent within the family [see note 2]; 2017, sold by an agent for the Rothenstein family to Hill-Stone, Inc., South Dartmouth, MA; 2019, sold by Hill-Stone, Inc. to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 20, 2019)
NOTES: [1] Lot 640 was an unspecified number of “Etudes d’après Goya”. [2] According to the dealer at the time of acquisition.
NOTES: [1] Lot 640 was an unspecified number of “Etudes d’après Goya”. [2] According to the dealer at the time of acquisition.