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Groups of young children, often playing or apeing adult behaviour, introduced a note of informal gaiety into French art at the beginning of the eighteenth century in the works of Lemoyne and Boucher. Such subjects were particularly favoured mid-century in both the fine and decorative arts by patrons such as Madame de Pompadour. Acquired by the 4th Marquess of Hertford under an attribution to Boucher, the present picture was in fact painted by Boucher’s former pupil Jollain. It was commissioned in 1781, together with Taraval’s 'The Waking of Cupid' P483, as an overdoor for the Queen’s bedchamber at Marly, for which Jollain was paid 500 livres in 1785. It demonstrates the continuing influence of Boucher’s rococo decorative idiom in the work of his pupils and followers in a period more usually associated with the rise of Neo-classical austerity.

The Wallace Collection

London

Title

Sleeping Child

Date

1781

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 95.7 x W 142.7 cm

Accession number

P488

Acquisition method

acquired by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford, 1855; bequeathed to the nation by Lady Wallace, 1897

Work type

Painting

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