- Cronología
- Ca. 1797 - 1799
- Dimensiones
- 219 x 154 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Etching and burnished aquatint
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Undisputed work
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 12 Dec 2010 / 29 May 2024
- Inventario
- 225
Las rinde el Sueño. (at the bottom)
34. (in the upper right-hand corner)
See Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Painter.
There are several state proofs, two of them with handwritten titles. One reads The Sleeping Night and the other The Dream yields them
A preparatory drawing of this engraving has survived.
A group of women stand in a dark room into which the light enters with difficulty through a latticed arch. The central figure in the composition is seated on a rough, uneven floor, her head resting on her hand and her arm on her thigh, in a reflective or drowsy attitude. She has bare feet and a striped ribbon in her hair. Three other women lying and sitting on the ground stand out in the foreground, their white robes contrasting with the darkness of the background; the two at either end - we assume that they are also female figures - appear to be wearing habits with their heads hooded.
This print has given rise to various interpretations; in some cases it has been suggested that they are imprisoned prostitutes and that the hooded figures could be their celestinas. However, the manuscripts in the Prado Museum and the National Library indicate that the image depicts the interior of a convent in which the nuns are said to have had carnal relations with some of the friars, after which they sleep.
The plate is preserved in the National Chalcography (no. 205).
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Goya. Gemälde Zeichnungen. Graphik. TapisserienKunsthalle BaselBasle1953from January 23th to April 12th 1953cat. 224
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De grafiek van GoyaRijksmuseum RijksprentenkabinetAmsterdam1970from November 13th 1970 to January 17th 1971cat. 32
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Goya. Das Zeitalter der Revolucionen. Kunst um 1800 (1980 – 1981)Hamburger KunsthalleHamburg1980cat. 32
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Goya. La década de Los CaprichosMadrid1992organized by Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando sponsored by Fundación Central Hispano, Madrid, consultant editor Nigel Glendinnig. From October 26th 1992 to January 10th 1993cat. 99
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Francisco de GoyaMuseo d'Arte ModernaLugano1996exhibition celebrated from September 22nd to November 17th.cat. 34, p.61
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Francisco Goya. Sein leben im spiegel der graphik. Fuendetodos 1746-1828 Bordeaux. 1746-1996Galerie KornfeldBern1996from November 21st 1996 to January 1997cat. 40
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Francisco Goya. Capricci, follie e disastri della guerraSan Donato Milanese2000Opere grafiche della Fondazione Antonio Mazzottap.29, cat. 34
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Goya. La imagen de la mujerMuseo Nacional del PradoMadrid2001from October 30th 2001 to February 10th 2002. Exhibitied also at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, March 10th to June 2nd 2002, consultant editor Francisco Calvo Serrallerp.74, fig. 27
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Goya e la tradizione italianaFondazione Magnani RoccaMamiano di Traversetolo (Parma)2006consultant editors Fred Licht and Simona Tosini Pizzetti. From September 9th to December 3th 2006cat. 34, p.154
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Goya. Opera graficaPinacoteca del Castello di San GiorgioLegnano2006exhibition celebrated from December 16th 2006 to April 1st 2007p.32
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Goya e ItaliaMuseo de ZaragozaZaragoza2008organized by the Fundación Goya en Aragóna, consultant editor Joan Sureda Pons. From June 1st to September 15th 2008cat. 325
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Goya et la modernitéPinacothèque de ParisParís2013from October 11st 2013 to March 16th 2014cat. 193
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Agen2019cat. 51
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2022
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Goya engravings and lithographs, vol. I y II.OxfordBruno Cassirer1964p.106, cat. 69
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p.180, cat. 518
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Goya, la década de los caprichos: dibujos y aguafuertesMadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando1992pp.170-172, cat. 99-100
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Catálogo de las estampas de Goya en la Biblioteca NacionalMadridMinisterio de Educación y Cultura, Biblioteca Nacional1996p.92, cat. 123
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El libro de los caprichos: dos siglos de interpretaciones (1799-1999). Catálogo de los dibujos, pruebas de estado, láminas de cobre y estampas de la primera ediciónMadridMuseo Nacional del Prado1999pp.200-203
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ParísPinacoteca de París2013p. 259
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Goya. In the Norton Simon MuseumPasadenaNorton Simon Museum2016pp. 42-75
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AgenSnoeck2019p. 144
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Museo de Bellas Artes de Badajoz y Diputación de Badajoz2022p. 41