Sleeping Boy

Philippe Laurent Roland · 1774-02-07T00:00:00Z

Made during Roland's sojourn in Italy (1770-1776).Probably served as a model for versions in marble (1774) and bronze, which would suggest a date before 1774.Influenced by sleeping erotes and depictions of Thanatos of classical antiquity;decision to include the arms, of which one is exposed and the other truncated and draped, is a revival of Baroque usage. Also reminiscent of genre-studies such as Greuze's half-lengths.