Cleveland Museum of Art
Sleep
Jean Bernard Restout (French, 1732–1797) · c. 1771
A source of inspiration for this painting was probably the Roman poet Ovid's <em>Metamorphoses</em>, which describes the god of sleep as living in a cave with sleep-inducing poppies at the entrance.
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