Le Sommeil
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Le Sommeil is an erotic oil painting on canvas by French artist Gustave Courbet created in 1866. The painting, which depicts a female couple, is also known as The Two Friends and Indolence and Lust.
Gustave Courbet Le Sommeil, Paris, Petit Palais
Les Fleurs du mal
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Les Fleurs du mal is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire.
Le Sommeil
…necklace and a hairpin scattered in the bed reference the nature of their previous activity. The painting was inspired by Charles Baudelaire's poem "Delphine et Hippolyte", from his collection Les Fleurs du mal. Le Sommeil has been interpreted as a realist painting, detailing the bodies without glossing over their…
The first edition of Les Fleurs du mal with author's notes.
Illustration by Armand Rassenfosse for Les Fleurs du Mal. Collection King Baudouin Foundation.
Illustration of Les Fleurs du Mal by Carlos Schwabe, 1900