Rest (Bouguereau)

Rest
Artist	William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Year	1879
Medium	Oil on fabric
Dimensions	164.5 cm (64.8 in) × 117.8 cm (46.4 in)
Location	Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession No.	1915.722

Rest is an oil-on-canvas painting of 1879 by the French academic artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau. It is now in the Cleveland Museum of Art. It depicts a young mother with her children in the shade of a tree, with the dome of St Peter's Basilica in Rome in the background. The composition recalls paintings of the Holy Family by Raphael. The work is signed at the bottom left. ^[1]

The painting was bought from the artist by Hinman Hurlbut. ^[2]

References

1. "Catalogue entry, Cleveland Museum of Art". 14 March 2025.
2. Argencourt, Louise d'; Diederen, Roger; Luxenberg, Alisa (1999). European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland Museum of Art. ISBN   978-0-940717-52-7.