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Le Sommeil

Oil on canvas · 135 × 200 cm

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Where to see it

Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, Paris

About the painting

Le Sommeil (translated in English variously as The Sleepers and Sleep) is an erotic oil painting on canvas by French artist Gustave Courbet created in 1866. The painting, which depicts a female couple, is also known as The Two Friends (Les Deux Amies) and Indolence and Lust (Paresse et Luxure).

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Image: Gustave Courbet; Wikimedia Commons · public domain

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