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Le Sommeil (The Sleepers)

1866

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The story

The Turkish diplomat Halil Şerif Paşa commissioned it, and Whistler's mistress Joanna Hiffernan was one of the models. When a dealer exhibited it in 1872 it became the subject of a police report, and it was kept from public display until 1988.

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Object details

Title: Le Sommeil (The Sleepers)
Artist: Gustave Courbet
Date: 1866
Culture: French
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Petit Palais, Paris
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.1125
Original image: 3000 × 2013 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Gustave Courbet. Le Sommeil (The Sleepers). 1866. Petit Palais, Paris. Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea1125/