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"title": "A Painting in Focus: Jean-Bernard Restout's Sleep and the French Royal Academy",
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"title": "Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings",
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"description": "Academically trained artists often practiced drawing live models. Called academies, these figure studies occasionally served as preparatory drawings for paintings. Some artists crafted their academies to appeal to collectors interested in contemplating technical skill and inventiveness. Boucher may have imaginatively given wings to this male nude, who does not appear in any known painting, to demonstrate his ingenuity by transforming the model into a mythological figure.",
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"citation": "Foster, Carter E. \"Jean-Bernard Restout's \"sleep: Figure Study\": Painting and Drawing from Life at the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.\" Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 3 (1998): 48-85.",
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