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<Los Caprichos>: The sleep of reason produces monsters
Date | 1799 |
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Materials and Techniques | etching and aquatint |
Size(cm) | 21.6 x 15.2 (plate); 29.5 x 20.2 (paper) |
Inscriptions | Inscribed in lower left by stopping the aquatint: El Sueño/de la razon/produce/monstruos.; in upper right margin: 43. |
Standard ref. | Delteil 80; Harris 78; Gassier/Wilson 536 |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.1984-0057 |
Provenance
Wildenstein, New York; Minneapolis Institute of Art (1962); David Tunick Inc., New York (1983); Bijutsu Shiryo Center, Tokyo; Purchased by the NMWA, 1984.
Exhibition History
- 1988
- Dream and Fantasy in Modern Western Graphic Arts, Gunnma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, 11 June 1988 - 10 July 1988, cat. no. 1
- 1999
- Goya: his time and his uniqueness, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 12 January 1999 - 7 March 1999, cat. no. 60
- 1999
- Rhetorik der Leidenschaft - Zur Bildsprache der Kunst in Abendland: Meisterwerke aus der Graphische Sammlung Albertina und aus der Porträtsammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (The Body in Memory: Warburg's Treasury of Images), National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 6 July 1999 - 29 August 1999, cat. no. 43
- 2011
- Goya: Lights and Shadows. Masterpieces of the Museo del Prado, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 22 October 2011 - 29 January 2012, cat. no. 4
- 2015
- NO MUSEUM, NO LIFE?: Art-Museum Encyclopedia to Come: From the Collections of the National Museums of Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 16 June 2015 - 13 September 2015, cat. no. A-14
- 2020
- Sleeping: Life with Art: From Goya and Rubens to Shiota Chiharu, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 25 November 2020 - 23 February 2021, no. 1-1, col. repr.
- 2023
- Imaged and Imagined: Spain Seen through Prints from Japanese Collections, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 4 July 2023 - 3 September 2023, cat. no. 1-11-b
Bibliography
- 1954
- Usami, Eiji. Goya to Akuma: Caprichos-ron. Bijutsu Hihyo. June, 1954 (in Japanese)
- 1955
- Levitine, George. Literary sources of Goya's Capricho 43. Art Bulletin. vol. 37, no. 1, March 1955, pp. 55-59.
- 1961
- Glendinning, Nigel. The monk and the soldier in plate 58 of Goya's Caprichos. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. vol. 24, no. 1/2, January - June 1961, pp. 115-120.
- 1963
- Crispolti, Enrico. Processo elaborativo e cronolgía dei Caprichos di Goya. Scritti di storia dell'arte in onore di Mario Salmi. vol. 3, Roma, De Luca, 1963, pp. 319-433.
- 1964
- [Konno, Masaru]. Goya "Los Caprichos": De-mon no hateshinai kokuhatsu. Bijutsu Techo. no. 240, August, 1964, pp. 104-110. (in Japanese)
- 1970
- Hohl, Hanna. Guiseppe Maria Mitellis "Alfabeto in sogno" und Francisco de Goyas "Sueño de la razón". Museum und Kunst: Beiträge für Alfred Hantzen. Grohn, Hans Werner; Stubbe, Wolf, eds. Hamburg, Christians, 1970, pp. 109-118.
- 1976
- Glendinning, Nigel. Imaginacíon de Goya: Nuevas fuentes para algunos de sus dibujos y pinturas. Archivo Español de Arte. tomo 49, 1976, pp. 273-292.
- 1977
- Imaizumi, Atsuo. "Goya no 'Caprichos'". Goya no dohanga/Caprichos (exh. cat.). Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art; RKK Kumamoto Broadcasting. Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, 1977, [n.p.] (in Japanese)
- 1978
- Glendinning, Nigel. Goya on women in the Caprichos: The case of Castillo's wife. Apollo. February 1978, pp. 130-134.
- 1978
- Nilson, Sten Ake. The ass sequence in los Caprichos. Konsthistorisk Tidskrift. vol.47, June 1978, pp. 27-38.
- 1979
- Yukiyama, Koji. Study of Goya's Caprichos (I) On no. 43 "El sueño de la razón produce monstruos". Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. no. 12 (1977), 1979, pp. 50-76, repr. (in Japanese)
- 1986
- Murakami, Satoshi. A Report on Goya's Los Caprichos in the collection of the Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art. "de arte": Journal of the Kyushu Art Society. no. 2, March, 1986, pp. 63-78. (in Japanese)
- 1988
- Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 19 (1984), 1988, Yukiyama, Koji. New Acquisitions 1984. p.20-21, Catalogue of the New Acquisitions 1984. pp. 42-93, repr.
- 1988
- Alcalá Flecha, Roberto. Literatura e ideología en el arte de Goya. Zaragoza, Diputación General de Aragón, 1988, pp. 342-347.
- 1988
- Dream and Fantasy in Modern Western Graphic Arts (exh. cat.). Gunnma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, ed. [Takasaki], Gunnma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, 1988, pp. 17, 99, cat. no. 1, repr.
- 1989
- Murakami, Satoshi. Goya's Los Caprichos: Data catalogue for the priority of the impressions through a minute analysis based on Tomás Harris' catalogue raisonné. Bulletin of Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art. vol. 3, 1989, pp. 149-180. (in Japanese)
- 1992
- Wilson-Bareau, Juliet. Goya, la década de los Caprichos: Dibujos y aguafuertes (exh. cat.). Madrid, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, 1992, pp. 9-13.
- 1996
- Caprichos de Francisco de Goya: Una aproximación y tres estudios. Madrid, Calcografía Nacional, 1996, [vol. 2] no. 43.
- 2000
- Schulz, Andrew. Satirizing the senses: The representation of perception in Goya's Los Caprichos. Art History. vol. 23, no. 2, June 2000, pp. 153-181.
- 2020
- Sleeping: Life with Art—From Goya and Rubens to Shiota Chiharu (exh. cat.). Furutate, Ryo, ed. National Museum of Art, 2020, pp. 37, 175, cat. no. 1-1, col. repr.
- 2023
- Imaged and Imagined: Spain Seen through Prints from Japanese Collections (exh. cat.). Kawase, Yusuke; Inaba, Yuta; Nakada, Asuka et al., eds. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2023, pp. 32, 199, cat. no. 1-11-b, col. repr.