Sleep
c. 1771
Jean Bernard Restout
Jean Bernard Restout (French, 1732–1797)
European Painting and Sculpture
Sleep, c. 1771. Jean Bernard Restout (French, 1732–1797). Oil on canvas; framed: 127.5 x 160 x 14 cm (50 3/16 x 63 x 5 1/2 in.); unframed: 97.6 x 130 cm (38 7/16 x 51 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1963.502 A source of inspiration for this painting was probably the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses, which describes the god of sleep as living in a cave with sleep-inducing poppies at the entrance.
- Maker/Artist
- Restout, Jean Bernard
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 127.5 x 160 x 14 cm (50 3/16 x 63 x 5 1/2 in.); Unframed: 97.6 x 130 cm (38 7/16 x 51 3/16 in.)
- Departments
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1963.502
- Credit Line
- Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review (1963), Gods and Heroes, Baroque Images of Antiquity, A Painting in Focus: Jean-Bernard Restout's Sleep and the French Royal Academy, Neoclassicism: A Taste for the Antique, 1720-1790, America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 216B French and German
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