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Sleep, ca. 1867–70. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 26 1/8 x 41 3/4 in. (66.4 x 106 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Sleep
- Artist
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, Lyons 1824–1898 Paris)
- Date
- ca. 1867–70
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 26 1/8 x 41 3/4 in. (66.4 x 106 cm)
- Credit line
- Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1824–1898
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.