Le Sommeil c1830
Le Sommeil c1830 by French Painter Aimée Pagès-Brune (1803 – 1866); one of the most respected female French painters.
This beautiful and enchanting painting was presented at the Salon of 1831 an depicts beautiful young lady sleeping in a bed covered with a white sheet and adorned with blue flowers, nude from the waist up, resting her head on a large white pillow.
She has her left hand resting on her head and her right arm on her hip on top of a white sheet and floral embroidered gold tone blanket that is covering the lower portion of her body.
Above and around her are large patterned embroidered red velvet bed curtains with tassels that complement her skin tone and the sheets and blanket on the bed.
This is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image.
Info Below Derived From Wikipedia.org
Aimée Brune Pagès was a student of French Historical Painter Charles Meynier (1763 or 68 – 1832) of events of the late 18th and early 19th century.
During her time she was under the rule of several political regimes, which included The Restoration, The July Monarchy, The Second Republic and The Second Empire.
She is considered to be one of the most respected French women painters, and she exhibited regularly at the Salon from 1822 to 1853; sometimes collaborating with her husband French Landscape Painter Christian Brune (1793 – 1849).