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Sleeping Bather near a Spring

1850

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The story

The sleeping bather is also a portrait of the famous actress Alice Ozy, Chassériau's lover from about 1848 to 1850. Her recognizable face stripped away the usual excuse of myth and left viewers looking at a real, contemporary woman undressed.

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Object details

Title: Sleeping Bather near a Spring
Artist: Théodore Chassériau
Date: 1850
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Musée Calvet, Avignon
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0306
Original image: 3000 × 1957 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Théodore Chassériau. Sleeping Bather near a Spring. 1850. Musée Calvet, Avignon. Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0306/