Answer:
Art historian Philip Hofer
Explanation:
On the preparatory drawings for ‘The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters’ Goya explained (in reference to the artist that is depicted asleep), "His only purpose is to banish harmful, vulgar beliefs, and to perpetuate in this work of caprices the solid testimony of truth." Art historian Philip Hofer has suggested on the evidence of one of the preparatory sketches that Goya had intended for this work to be the frontispiece of Los Caprichos, but Goya ultimately opted for ‘The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters’ to be the 43rd etching out of the 80 total
