Two naked women lie asleep in each other's arms on a rumpled bed, one red-haired, one dark. Courbet painted it for the Ottoman diplomat and collector Halil Şerif Pasha, and one of the models was Joanna Hiffernan. It was a private commission: when a dealer showed it in 1872, it became the subject of a police report.
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A broken pearl necklace and a hairpin lie scattered on the sheets, hints of what came before sleep.
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