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Le Sommeil

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Le Sommeil is an oil painting on canvas by the French artist Gustave Courbet, created in 1866. The painting depicts a female couple asleep and entwined together, and is also known by the titles The Two Friends and Indolence and Lust. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Year Created
1866 1
Medium
Oil on canvas 1
Location
Petit Palais, Paris 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Oil on Canvas 1
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Source Le Sommeil (Wikipedia)

In Form

Painting, Art Forms
Source Le Sommeil (Wikipedia)

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Painting, Art Forms

Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

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1. Le Sommeil (Wikipedia)
  • Introduction, sentence 1
    created in 1866
  • Infobox, medium
    Oil on canvas
  • Infobox, museum
    Petit Palais
  • Genre reference
    Le Sommeil is an oil painting on canvas by the French artist Gustave Courbet, created in 1866.
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    Le Sommeil (translated in English variously as The Sleepers and Sleep) is an erotic oil painting on canvas by French artist Gustave Courbet created in 1866. The painting, which depicts a female couple, is also known as The Two Fri
  • Created By: Gustave Courbet, lead paragraph
    Le Sommeil (translated in English variously as The Sleepers and Sleep) is an erotic oil painting on canvas by French artist Gustave Courbet created in 1866. The painting, which depicts a female couple, is also known as The Two Fri
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