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| Anonymous Printmaker after Jean Lepautre Figure Study (Soldier) ca. 1682-1706 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Anonymous Printmaker after Jean Lepautre Figure Study (Soldiers) ca. 1682-1706 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Anonymous Printmaker after Jean Lepautre Anatomical Study (Legs) ca. 1682-1706 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Anonymous Printmaker after Jean Lepautre Figure Study ca. 1688-1700 engraving, colored à la poupée British Museum |
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| Jean-Germain Drouais Gladiateur assis before 1788 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen |
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| Michel-François Dandré-Bardon Académie ca. 1740 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille |
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| Charles-Antoine Coypel Study for Christ at Emmaus ca. 1745-52 drawing private collection |
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| Chrétien Dubois Académie 1794 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Bernard Picart Académie 1723 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Bernard Picart Académie 1723 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Bernard Picart Académie 1722 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Bernard Picart Académie printed 1734 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jean Restout the Younger Académie ca. 1740 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Jean Restout the Younger Seated Faun ca. 1753-59 drawing Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Jean-Bernard Restout Sleep ca. 1771 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
Sleep
If sleep is truce, as it is sometimes said,
A pure time for the mind to rest and heal,
Why, when they suddenly wake you, do you feel
That they have stolen everything you had?
Why is it so sad to be awake at dawn?
It strips us of a gift so strange, so deep,
It can be remembered only in half-sleep,
Moments of drowsiness that gild and adorn
The waking mind with dreams, which may well be
But broken images of the night's treasure,
A timeless world that has no name or measure
And breaks up in the mirrors of the day.
Who will you be tonight, in the dark thrall
Of sleep, when you have slipped across its wall?
– Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), translated by Robert Mezey (1993)