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Sleep overcomes them (Las rinde le sueño)

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Artwork Details

Sleep overcomes them (Las rinde le sueño)
1799
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
etching and burnished aquatint on paper
12 x 8 in. (30.48 x 20.32 cm);7 3/8 x 5 5/16 in. (18.73 x 13.49 cm);8 7/16 x 6 in. (21.43 x 15.24 cm);19 x 14 in. (48.26 x 35.56 cm)
Gift of Kurt Delbanco in honor of Nicholas Delbanco, and partial purchase with the funds from the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
2008/1.152.34

Description

Plate 34
Sleep overcomes them.
(Las rinde le sueño.)
Etching and burnished aquatint
Gift of Kurt Delbanco in honor of Nicholas Delbanco, and partial purchase with funds from the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, 2008/1.152.34
Commentary: Don’t wake them! Sleep is perhaps the only happiness of the wretched.

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