Allegory of Sleep
1699
Object PlaceThe Netherlands
Medium/TechniqueStone; Marble
Dimensions71.12 cm (28 in.)
Credit LineJohn H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund
Accession number63.1627
On View
On viewClassificationsSculpture
Collections
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.
late 14th century
