# Plate 43, The sleep of reason produces monsters, becomes a public Enlightenment teaching image

Date: 1799

## The fact

In 1799 [Goya](/people/francisco-goya)’s Sleep of reason produces monsters entered the public Caprichos.

It is one event.

## Context

A motto plate can flatten the set and can teach.

Francisco Goya’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Capricho 43 is part of the 1799 set. Later schools made it a motto image. He etched; later museums taught. Complex teaching object.
Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

Prado’s plate and Smarthistory/Met teaching pages independently present Capricho 43 as a public image.

Official or archival record: Museo Nacional del Prado (https://www.museodelprado.es/en; Museo Nacional del Prado).

## Significance

A numbered motto plate is a durable education object.

Plate 43 is not the 3rd of May.

A numbered motto plate is a durable education object.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1799 public plate 43. Not established: a unique literacy series.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Francisco Goya.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

They are not a public rating.

The attached driver is [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion). Later museums, UNESCO listings, Loeb reprints, and 2024–2025 COP or NATO rows are not this event. Responsibility 0.5 and influence 0.45 bound the path; they are not a personality score. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Readers should open both named URLs.

## People

- Francisco Goya: https://factrail.ai/people/francisco-goya

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://smarthistory.org/goya-third-of-may-1808/
- https://www.museodelprado.es/en

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/goy-sleep-reason