Sleeping Boy
Made during Roland's sojourn in Italy (1770-1776). Probably served as a model for versions in marble (1774) and bronze, which would suggest a date before 1774. Influenced by sleeping erotes and depictions of Thanatos of classical antiquity;decision to include the arms, of which one is exposed and the other truncated and draped, is a revival of Baroque usage. Also reminiscent of genre-studies such as Greuze's half-lengths.
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