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Eugène de Montesquiou-Fezensac Sleeping
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun French
Not on view
In his book Émile (1762), the philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau emphasized the need to pay attention to children from “the age of nature,” stimulating interest among eighteenth-century artists in very young models. This baby was born into an aristocratic family
and grew up to hold distinguished military positions in service to Napoleon and the empress Josephine. Here he lies on a blue cushion, swaddled, wearing a lace-trimmed bonnet.
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