Sommeil, or "The Sleepers"

by Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet was a French Painter of the "Realist" school, a reaction to 18th and early 19th Century Romanticism and a precursor to later Impressionism. This work was painted in 1866 (if I'm not mistaken, for an Ottoman sultan). It was one of several erotic works that got Courbet in a great deal of trouble. (To see an interesting alternate version of this image, go here.)

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