![Sommeil du sage [Sleep of the Sage], from the Recueil d'esquisses [Collection of Sketches]](/internal/media/dispatcher/17298/preview)
![Sommeil du sage [Sleep of the Sage], from the Recueil d'esquisses [Collection of Sketches]](/internal/media/dispatcher/17298/full)
Sommeil du sage [Sleep of the Sage], from the Recueil d'esquisses [Collection of Sketches]
Primary
Philippe-Auguste Hennequin
(Lyon, France, 1762–Leuze, Belgium, 1833)
Printer
Charles Aubry
(Paris, France, 1811–1877)
NationalityFrench, Europe
Datecirca 1820
MediumLithograph
DimensionsSheet: 18 1/4 × 11 11/16 in. (46.4 × 29.7 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Purchase through the generosity of Sydney and Dean Kilgore, 1992.7
Keywords
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1992.7
On View
Not on viewA student of the neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David, Hennequin won first prize at the Salon of 1799, the official exhibition organized by the French Academy, for his monumental history painting, The Triumph of the French People on 10 August. After Napoleon I’s final defeat and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1815, Hennequin, like David, went into exile in Belgium where he gradually fell into poverty.
Hoping to bank on his earlier successes, he gathered examples of his past work to reproduce or re-issue. More modest in scale than his oversized paintings, this print was part of a set of fifty published in 1825.
Exhibitions
![Head or helmeted soldier looking right, from Recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eau forte [Collection of various sketches and etching proofs]](/internal/media/dispatcher/16179/thumbnail)
![Group of five male figures, looking left, from Recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eau forte [Collection of various sketches and etching proofs]](/internal/media/dispatcher/14225/thumbnail)
![Large head of a woman looking right, with three male heads in left margin and three tiny figures on right, from Seond recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eau forte [Second collection of various sketches and etching proofs]](/internal/media/dispatcher/14224/thumbnail)
![Above, profile of old woman wearing a turban, below bust of a man wearing a feathered turban and a fur gown, from Recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eau forte [Collection of various sketches and etching proofs]](/internal/media/dispatcher/14223/thumbnail)
![Below, the Head of a Woman in Profile to the Right, Above, the Head of a Youth and on the Left, the Head of a Soldier with a Helmet, from Recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eau-forte [Collection of various sketches and etching poofs]](/internal/media/dispatcher/14222/thumbnail)
![Les Vierges sages méditant les saints mystêres [The Wise Virgins Studying the Sacred Mysteries], from Les Vierges sages et les vierges folles [The Wise and Foolish Virgins]](/internal/media/dispatcher/75/thumbnail)
![Temporalis Aeternitas [The Four Sages]](/internal/media/dispatcher/18327/thumbnail)
![Les Vierges Sages [The Wise Virgins]](/internal/media/dispatcher/74/thumbnail)
