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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.)
Credit Line Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession Number65.2592
NOT ON VIEW
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)