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accession number: 1963.502
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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
title: Sleep
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creation date: c. 1771
creation date earliest: 1766
creation date latest: 1776
current location: 216B French and German
creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture: France, 18th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - French 18th Century
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Jean Bernard Restout (French, 1732–1797) - artist
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measurements: 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.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review (1963)
opening date: 1963-11-27T05:00:00
Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964).
title: Gods and Heroes, Baroque Images of Antiquity
opening date: 1968-10-29T05:00:00
Gods and Heroes, Baroque Images of Antiquity. Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY (organizer) (October 29, 1968-January 4, 1969).
title: A Painting in Focus: Jean-Bernard Restout's Sleep and the French Royal Academy
opening date: 1999-03-14T00:00:00
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).
title: Neoclassicism: A Taste for the Antique, 1720-1790
opening date: 2011-03-20T00:00:00
Neoclassicism: A Taste for the Antique, 1720-1790. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (organizer) (March 20-May 30, 2011).
title: America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting
opening date: 2017-05-21T00:00:00
America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (May 21-August 20, 2017).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
possibly exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1771, cat. 137 ("Sommeil, figure d'etude)
date: 1771
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possibly exhibited at the Salon de la Correspondance of 1783, cat. 144 (as "Morphée")
date: 1783
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possibly listed as "Morphée" in the inventory made at the artist's death, 1797
date: 1797
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(Sold, Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris [as attributed to Fragonard])
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(sold, Hotel Drouot, Paris, December 2, 1910, no. 13, as attributed to Fragonard)
date: December 2, 1910
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Octave Linet (1870-1962), Paris and Tours, France
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(Octave Linet, sold, Palais Galliera, Paris, March 23, 1963, no. 16, as "Le genie du sommeil," as by François Boucher)
date: March 23, 1963
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(Galerie Cailleux, Paris, France), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963.
date: -1963
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1963-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
"Year in Review." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, L, (December, 1963): 278-279.
page number: Mentioned: 278-279; Reproduced: no. 88
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 141
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n165
Francis, Henry S. “Jean Honoré Fragonard: Morpheus.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 53, no. 3 (1966)
page number: Reproduced: fig. 1-3
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152093
Wildenstein and Company. Gods & Heroes: Baroque Images of Antiquity. New York, NY, 1968.
page number: Reproduced: no. 15, pl. 38
url: https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/452359
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 141
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n165
Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France). De David à Delacroix: la peinture française de 1774 à 1830 : [exposition], Grand Palais, 16 novembre 1974-3 février 1975. Paris: Secrétariat d'État à la culture, Éditions des musées nationaux, 1974.
page number: p. 38
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Welu, James A. "Sleeping Endymion by Nicolas-Guy Brenet," Worcester Art Museum Bulletin, no. 1 (1974).
page number: 7, fig. 2
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Rosenberg, Pierre. The Age of Louis XV: French Painting 1710-1774 : [Exhibition] 1975-1976, the Toledo Museum of Art, October 26-December 7, the Art Institute of Chicago, January 10-February 22, the National Gallery of Canada, March 21-May 2. Toledo, OH: Toledo Museum of Art, 1975.
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Rubin, James Henry, and David Levine. Eighteenth-century French life-drawing: selections from the Collection of Mathias Polakovits. Princeton, NJ.: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1977.
page number: Mentioned: p. 88-89; Reproduced: fig. 27
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 186
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n206
Sandoz, Marc, and Gabriel Briard. Gabriel Briard, 1725-1777: avec des remarques liminaires sur Jean-Baptiste Alizard. Paris, France: Editart-Quatre Chemins, 1981.
page number: Reproduced: p. 79
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Mentioned: p. 157-160; Reproduced: p. 158
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Bailey, Colin B., and Carrie A. Hamilton. The Loves of the Gods: Mythological Painting from Watteau to David. New York, NY: Rizzoli, 1992.
page number: Mentioned: p. 493; Reproduced: fig. 6
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Ian Woodner Master Drawings Symposium, and Diana Dethloff. Drawing: Masters and Methods: Raphael to Redon : Papers Presented to the Ian Woodner Master Drawings Symposium at The Royal Academy of Arts, London. London, United Kingdom: Philip Wilson in association with the Royal Academy of Arts, 1992.
page number: Reproduced: p. 9, fig. 52
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Dethloff, Diana. Drawing: Masters and Methods : Raphael to Redon. London: P. Wilson Publishers in association with the Royal Academy of Arts, 1992.
page number: p. 9, fig. 2.
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Foster, Carter E. "Jean-Bernard Restout's Sleep: Figure Study: Painting and Drawing from Life at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture," Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 3 (1998): 48-85.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 48-49, fig. 1
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20079698
"La Chronique des Arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 133 (1999).
page number: p. 16
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Poulet, Anne L., and Jean Antoine Houdon. Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment. Washington, DC: Published by the National Gallery of Art in association with the University of Chicago Press, 2003.
page number: Reproduced: p. 93, fig. 3
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Poulet, Anne L., and Jean Antoine Houdon. Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment. Washington, DC: Published by the National Gallery of Art in association with the University of Chicago Press, 2003.
page number: fig. 3, p. 93
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Rosenberg, Pierre. Only in America: One Hundred Paintings in American Museums Unmatched in European Collections. Milano, Italy: Skira, 2006.
page number: Mentioned: p. 144-145
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Scherf, Guilhem, and Jean Antoine Houdon. Houdon, 1741-1828: statues, portraits sculptés--. Paris, France: Musée du Louvre, 2006.
page number: Reproduced: p. 23, fig. 10
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Bédard, Sylvain "Le nu historié: les envois des pensionnaires de l'Aacdémie de France à Rome us XVIII siècle," in Studiolo: Revue de l'Art de l'Académie de France à Rome, 2006.
page number: p. 217, fig. 4
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Faroult, Guillaume, Christophe Leribault, Guilhem Scherf, Edgar Peters Bowron, and Helga Kessler-Aurisch. Antiquity Revived: Neoclassical Art in the Eighteenth Century. Paris, France: Gallimard, 2011.
page number: Reproduced: p. 185
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Jollet, Etienne. Anti-Pygmalion: Body Movement and Equivocalities in Jean-Baptiste Restout's "Diogenes Asking for Alms." In Body Narratives: Motion and Emotion in the French Enlightenment. Susanna Caviglia, editor., 63-80: Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2017.
page number: Mentioned; p. 66; Reproduced: p. 164. pl. 10
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Willk-Brocard, Nicole. Jean-Bernard Restout: 1732-1796: Peintre du Roi et Révolutionnaire. Paris: Arthéna, 2017.
page number: Reproduced; p. 4; 49, #67 P; 156; Mentioned: pp. 156-157
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Jackall, Yuriko. America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting. 2017. Pl. 50.
page number: 226-227
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Jackall, Yuriko. America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting. Chicago, IL: Art Stock Books, Independent Publishers Group, 2017.
page number: Reproduced: p. 226-227, pl. 50, 258-259 (detail); Mentioned: pp. 279
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Schmuckli, Claudia, Kehinde Wiley, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Emil Kraig Wilbekin, Janna Keegan, Thomas P. Campbell, Darren Walker, and Justin Steele. Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence. San Francisco, California : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; New York, NY : DelMonico Books/D.A.P., 2023.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 129, fig. 31
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