A woman in a sheer orange gown sleeps curled on a marble bench, with a sunlit sea glittering behind her. Frederic Leighton first designed the figure as a detail in another picture, then gave her this square canvas of her own. Long out of fashion, it resurfaced in London in the 1960s and was bought for the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico.
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The sprig of oleander at top right is poisonous, possibly a hint at the thin line between sleep and death. Her pose loosely recalls Michelangelo's statue of Night.
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