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Sleeping Child
The Artist's Daughter Asleep (facing right)
Sleeping Child
Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune (French, 1741–1814)
about 1770
Medium/Technique
Pen and black ink with brush and gray wash over charcoal
Dimensions
Framed: 34.9 x 40 x 5.1 cm (13 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 2 in.)
Sheet: 10.3 x 13.5 cm (4 1/16 x 5 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 10.3 x 13.5 cm (4 1/16 x 5 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession Number65.2592
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Description(the artist's daughter Catherine François, later wife of Carl Vernet).
ProvenanceJules and Edmond de Goncourt, Paris by 1858; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15-17 February 1897, lot 192; purchased by Colnaghi for John P. Heseltine, London; Walter Burns, London; Mortimer Schiff, New York; Christie's, London, 24 June 1938, lot 46; Wildenstein & Co., New York; January 3, 1948, sold by Wildenstein & Co. to Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 – d. 1964), New York, Paris, Rhode Island; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)