Comforted by Sleep (No. 34)
Series TitleLos Caprichos
Artist
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
(Spanish, 1746 - 1828)
Date1799
MediumEtching with aquatint and other intaglio media
DimensionsPlate: 7 1/2 × 5 3/16 inches (19.05 × 13.18 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-1068
Edition/State/Proof1st ed.
On View
Not on viewCollections
Exhibition History[No known exhibitions at this time]
With Alden Galleries, Kansas City, MO, October 25, 1933;
Purchased from Alden Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.Tomás Harris, Goya Engravings and Lithographs, vol. 2 (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964), no. 69, p. 106, (repro.), as Las rinde el Sueño. (Sleep overcomes them).
Pierre Gassier and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya, 2nd ed. (New York: Harrison House, 1981), no. 518, pp. 163, 180, (repro.), as Las rinde el Sueño.
Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Julián Gállego, Goya: The Complete Etchings and Lithographs (Munich: Prestel, 1995), no. 34, p. 53, (repro.), as Sleep overcomes them.
George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 134, 314, as Caprices (Los Caprichos).
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