The Empire of Sleep
Published on February 19, 2026
This exhibition will explore the symbolic and allegorical implications of sleep, its importance in secular and sacred imagery, and the ways in which sleep-related scientific, philosophical, and psychoanalytical research have influenced art.
Artworks dating from 1800 – 1920 will be shown together with significant works from Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the modern and contemporary eras in order to highlight certain key enduring themes: the sleep of the innocent, dreams in Bible stories, the ambivalence of the notion of sleep, the Eros of the sleeping figure, and dreams and nightmares.
The exhibition runs from October 9, 2025 to March 1, 2026 at The Musee Marmottan Monet, 2, Rue Louis-Boilly, Paris, France.
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