Sleep, ca. 1867?70, Oil on canvas, 26 1/8 x 41 3/4 in. (66. 4 x 106 cm), Paintings, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, Lyons 1824?1898 Paris), This is a smaller replica of an 1867 painting, Sleep (Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille), which Puvis regarded as his "favorite work. " He associated the composition with a fragment from the Aeneid by the ancient Roman poet Virgil: "It was the hour when the first rest of weary mortals begins" (book 2, line 268)