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Sleep: sketch for the painting, now in the museum at Lille

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

1840–98

Medium

Pen and brown ink on tracing paper

Tags

Sleeping Human Figures

Dimensions

9 13/16 x 13 11/16 in. (24.9 x 34.8 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1909

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

1824–1898 • France

He is known primarily for large decorative compositions of figures in landscapes. He is generally regarded as a precursor of Symbolism, but in reality he was independent of any contemporary movement; his works influenced both academic and avant-garde artists. French artist. Comment on works: history, mythology

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