Sleeping Venus (Delvaux)
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Sleeping Venus is a 1944 painting by the Belgian artist Paul Delvaux. It depicts a reclining Venus surrounded by anguished people at a town square with classical buildings. It was painted in Brussels
Sleeping Venus by Paul Delvaux
Chaise longue
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A chaise longue is an upholstered sofa in the shape of a chair that is long enough to support the legs of the sitter. For the unupholstered outdoor furniture see sunlounger.
Sleeping Venus (Delvaux)
…gesture while on their knees. To the left at the front are a standing skeleton and a clothed dressmaker's dummy. Dominating the picture at the front is a chaise longue in Empire style where a nude Venus figure reclines with closed eyes and her hands behind her head. Sleeping Venus is painted in oil on canvas and has…
A chaise longue sofa
Chaise longue (Klinai) in a 4th-century Roman manuscript
Duchesse brisée
Récamier