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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Sleep: sketch for the painting, now in the museum at Lille

1840–98
Pen and brown ink on tracing paper
24.9 × 34.8 cm (9.8 × 13.7 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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