400 Euros Francisco de Goya - The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

Reverse

Work "The sleep of reason produces monsters", created by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes between 1796 and 1797 and now held at the Prado Museum in Madrid.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
EL SUEÑO DE LA RAZÓN PRODUCE MONSTRUOS
El sueño de la razón produce monstruos

Translation: The sleep of reason produces monsters

Edge

Reeded

Comment

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important 19th- and 20th-century painters. Goya is often referred to as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns.

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters is an aquatint by the Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya. Created between 1797 and 1799 for the Diario de Madrid, it is the 43rd of the 80 aquatints making up the satirical "Los Caprichos".

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