Sleep

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

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).