The Sleepers
The story
Two nude women asleep in each other's arms on rumpled bedding, jewels scattered on the table beside them. Painted in 1866 for an Ottoman client — Courbet's most openly erotic canvas, refused public display for decades.
- Artist
- Gustave Courbet
- Year
- 1866
- Period
- Impressionist
- Where it lives
- Wikidata / Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
