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Sleeping Child
The Artist's Daughter Asleep (facing left)
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: 10.2 x 15.1 cm (4 x 5 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 10.2 x 15.1 cm (4 x 5 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession Number65.2593
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Description(said to be his daughter Catherine-François who later married 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)