Rest
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Story
A seated woman dressed in white and red rests in a wooded setting, accompanied by two children, with a distant domed structure glimpsed through the trees. She wears Ciociaro costume, giving the scene a quiet, idyllic air typical of genre painting. The work, titled Rest, was painted by William-Adolphe Bouguereau in 1879 using oil on fabric, and it belongs to the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, having entered through the Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection. Bouguereau, a French painter who lived from 1825 to 1905, worked in the academic art tradition and also created Dante and Virgil in Hell. One detail worth noticing is how the dome glimpsed through the trees adds a sense of depth and distance behind the resting figures, grounding the idyll in a wider, half-hidden world beyond the woods.
Where it works
Warm-toned artwork suited to living rooms and dining rooms, and to hotel guest rooms, in a vertical format.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection, 432.1915 · Photograph © The Cleveland Museum of Art