Sleep, ca. 1867–70, Oil on canvas, 26 1/8 x 41 3/4 in. ( x 106 cm), Paintings, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, Lyons 1824
Sleep, ca. 1867–70, Oil on canvas, 26 1/8 x 41 3/4 in. ( x 106 cm), Paintings, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, Lyons 1824–1898 Paris), This is a smaller replica of an 1867 painting, Sleep (Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille), which Puvis regarded as his “favorite work.” He associated the composition with a fragment from the Aeneid by the ancient Roman poet Virgil: “It was the hour when the first rest of weary mortals begins” (book 2, line 268
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