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Allegory of Sleep
French
1699
Object Place: Europe, The Netherlands
Medium/Technique
Stone; MarbleAllegory
Dimensions
71.12 cm (28 in.)
Credit Line
John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund
Accession Number63.1627
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSculpture
DescriptionWhite marble on original elliptical black marble base. Sleeping Putto, wreath of leaves & buds of opium poppy under right arm on head, left holds bud in drapery.
Signed
Signed & dated at center back
ProvenancePossibly in the de La Faillesse Collection, Auvergne, France [see note1]. By 1963, E.E. de Visser, Bilthoven, Holland; 1963, sold by de Visser to the MFA for 12,000 Dutch guilder (fl). (Accession date: October 16, 1963)
Notes:
[1] As written in the object's acquisition recommendation from Hanns Swarzenski (see curatorial object file), according to E.E. de Visser the piece came from the de la Faillesse Collection. It was called Amour Endormi and believed to have been made for a mistress of Louis XIV.
Notes:
[1] As written in the object's acquisition recommendation from Hanns Swarzenski (see curatorial object file), according to E.E. de Visser the piece came from the de la Faillesse Collection. It was called Amour Endormi and believed to have been made for a mistress of Louis XIV.