Head of a Young Man Sleeping
Jean-Baptiste Regnault French
Former Attribution Pierre Narcisse Guérin French
Not on view
This recently discovered sheet is by Jean-Baptiste Regnault, a successful painter with a large studio who became the chief rival of Jacques Louis David. It depicts the sleeping head of a young man and was a study for the figure of Cupid in Regnault's painting, Cupid and Psyche, exhibited in the Salon of 1785 (today in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers, Inv. MBA J150).