Baudouin, La Lecture

Falling Asleep in the Museum

10 sleepy people in famous paintings


1. Peter Paul Rubens, Two sleeping children (1612-13)

Rubens, Two sleeping children

Peter Paul Rubens, Two Sleeping Children – Source: Creative Commons


2. Johannes Vermeer, A Maid Asleep (1656-57)

Johannes Vermeer, A Maid Asleep

Johannes Vermeer, A Maid Asleep – Source: Creative Commons


3. Francois Boucher, The interrupted sleep (1750)

Francois Boucher, The Interrupted Sleep

Francois Boucher, The Interrupted Sleep – Source: Creative Commons


4. Pierre-Antoine Baudouin, La Lecture (ca. 1760)

Baudouin, La Lecture

Pierre-Antoine Baudouin, La Lecture – Source: Creative Commons


5. Károly Brocky, Sleeping Bacchante (1850-55)

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Károly Brocky, Sleeping Bacchante – Source: Creative Commons


6. August Renoir, Sleeping by the sea (1880)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Sleeping by the sea - Source:Creative Commons

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Sleeping by the sea – Source: Creative Commons


7. Frederic Lord Leighton, Flaming June (ca. 1895)

Frederic Lord Leighton, Flaming June

Frederic Lord Leighton, Flaming June – Source: Creative Commons


8. Henri Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy (1897)

Henri Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy

Henri Rousseau, The sleeping gypsy – Source: Creative Commons


9. Francesc Gimeno, Woman asleep (ca. 1899)

Gimeno, Woman asleep

Francesc Gimeno, Woman asleep – Source: Creative Commons


10. Egon Schiele, Sleeping girl (1918)

Egon Schiele, Sleeping girl

Egon Schiele, Sleeping Girl – Source: Creative Commons

 

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