id: 139729 accession number: 1963.502 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.502 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:04.343000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1771 creation date earliest: 1766 creation date latest: 1776 current location: 216B French and German creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - French 18th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jean Bernard Restout (French, 1732–1797) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE possibly exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1771, cat. 137 ("Sommeil, figure d'etude) date: 1771 footnotes: * citations: possibly exhibited at the Salon de la Correspondance of 1783, cat. 144 (as "Morphée") date: 1783 footnotes: citations: possibly listed as "Morphée" in the inventory made at the artist's death, 1797 date: 1797 footnotes: citations: (Sold, Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris [as attributed to Fragonard]) date: footnotes: citations: (sold, Hotel Drouot, Paris, December 2, 1910, no. 13, as attributed to Fragonard) date: December 2, 1910 footnotes: citations: Octave Linet (1870-1962), Paris and Tours, France date: footnotes: citations: (Octave Linet, sold, Palais Galliera, Paris, March 23, 1963, no. 16, as "Le genie du sommeil," as by François Boucher) date: March 23, 1963 footnotes: citations: (Galerie Cailleux, Paris, France), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963. date: -1963 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1963- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: 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 url: Welu, James A. "Sleeping Endymion by Nicolas-Guy Brenet," Worcester Art Museum Bulletin, no. 1 (1974). page number: 7, fig. 2 url: 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. page number: url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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. url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: Jackall, Yuriko. America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting. 2017. Pl. 50. page number: 226-227 url: 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 url: 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.502/1963.502_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.502/1963.502_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.502/1963.502_full.tif