Friday, April 25, 2025

 Francisco Goya
(1746 - 1828)

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes  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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Goya


The sleep of reason produces monsters (El sueño de la razon produce monstruos)
1799
Etching, aquatint
Plate: 21.2 x 15.1 cm, sheet: 29.5 x 21 cm
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/338473

This is the best known image from Goya's series of 80 aquatint etchings published in 1799 known as 'Los Caprichos' that are generally understood as the artist's criticism of the society in which he lived.

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