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Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Museum
Sleep
c. 1771
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Evidence ranked
Provenance
Public1771
possibly exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1771, cat. 137 ("Sommeil, figure d'etude)
1783
possibly exhibited at the Salon de la Correspondance of 1783, cat. 144 (as "Morphée")
1797
possibly listed as "Morphée" in the inventory made at the artist's death, 1797
Provenance event
(Sold, Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris [as attributed to Fragonard])
December 2, 1910
(sold, Hotel Drouot, Paris, December 2, 1910, no. 13, as attributed to Fragonard)
Provenance event
Octave Linet (1870-1962), Paris and Tours, France
March 23, 1963
(Octave Linet, sold, Palais Galliera, Paris, March 23, 1963, no. 16, as "Le genie du sommeil," as by...
Source provenance text
possibly exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1771, cat. 137 ("Sommeil, figure d'etude) possibly exhibited at the Salon de la Correspondance of 1783, cat. 144 (as "Morphée") possibly listed as "Morphée" in the inventory made at the artist's death, 1797 (Sold, Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris [as attributed to Fragonard]) (sold, Hotel Drouot, Paris, December 2, 1910, no. 13, as attributed to Fragonard) Octave Linet (1870-1962), Paris and Tours, France (Octave Linet, sold, Palais Galliera, Paris, March 23, 1963, no. 16, as "Le genie du sommeil," as by François Boucher) (Galerie Cailleux, Paris, France), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Exhibitions
PublicSource exhibition text
Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964). Gods and Heroes, Baroque Images of Antiquity. Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY (organizer) (October 29, 1968-January 4, 1969). A Painting in Focus: Jean-Bernard Restout's Sleep and the French Royal Academy. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 14-May 23, 1999). Neoclassicism: A Taste for the Antique, 1720-1790. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (organizer) (March 20-May 30, 2011). America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (May 21-August 20, 2017).
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Sourced Overview Evidence
The tradition of painting nude male figures in a studio setting was the cornerstone of artistic practice, teaching artists to depict the human body in complex poses in order to create larger narratives. However, by the late 1700s, some artists began to see these studies as independent works of art. By adding the wings and the poppies, Restout transformed his study into a more specific subject, and he first exhibited the work in a privately organized exhibition in 1783 under the title of Morpheus, the god of sleep.
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Evidence state
0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 9 structured provenance events · 5 structured exhibitions.
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