The sleep of reason produces monsters (No. 43)
Mat: 21 1/4 x 16 inches (53.98 x 40.64 cm)
Goya: Paintings, Prints and Drawings, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, January 16-March 1, 1953.
Graphic Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 23-July 25, 1993.
Inked in Time: Six Centuries of Printed Masterpieces, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 22-May 31, 1998, no cat.
Dürer to Tiepolo: Works on Paper, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 3-October 7, 2007, no cat., as The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, from Los Caprichos.
Goya/Chagoya, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 4, 2012-February 3, 2013, no cat., as The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (No. 43, El sueño de la razón produce monstruos).
Dürer to Tiepolo: Works on Paper, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 12, 2012-June 9, 2013, no cat., as The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (No. 43, El sueño de la razón produce monstruos).
With Alden Galleries, Kansas City, MO, October 25, 1933;
Purchased from Alden Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.
Goya: Paintings, Prints and Drawings, exh. cat. (Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1953).
George Levitine, “Some Emblematic Sources of Goya,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 22 (1959): 114-31.
Folke Nordström, Goya, Saturn and Melancholy (Stockholm: Almqvist och Wiksell, 1962), 116-32.
Tomás Harris, Goya Engravings and Lithographs (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964), 1: no. 78, pp. 100-02, 113, (repro.), as El sueño de la razon produce monstruos. (The sleep of reason produces monsters); 2: no. 78, pp. 115-16, (repro.), as El sueño de la razon produce monstruos. (The sleep of reason produces monsters.).
Philip Hofer, ed., Los Caprichos (New York: Dover, 1969), 2.
Pierre Gassier and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya, 2nd ed. (New York: Harrison House, 1981), no. 536, pp. 125-26, 130, 163, 181, (repro.), as El sueño de la razon produce monstruos (The dream of reason brings forth monsters).
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 197, (repro.), as The Sleep of Reason Gives Birth to Monsters, from Los Caprichos.
Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Julián Gállego, Goya: The Complete Etchings and Lithographs (Munich: Prestel, 1995), no. 43, p. 58, (repro.), as The sleep of reason produces monsters.
George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 134, 137, 314, (repro.), as Caprices (Los Caprichos).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 108, (repro.), as The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Pl. 43), from Los Caprichos.
