The Empire of Sleep at Musée Marmottan Monet

Event Description

The Musée Marmottan Monet explores the artistic, symbolic, and scientific aspects of sleep. Curated by neurologist and science historian Laura Bossi alongside Sylvie Carlier, the director of the museum’s collections, the show brings together more than 100 works – paintings, sculptures, drawings, etc- tracing representations of sleep from Antiquity to the modern day, with a special focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. It examines recurring motifs such as the innocence of slumber, biblical dreams, the tension between rest and eternal rest, the eroticism of the sleeping body, and the surreal landscapes of dreams and nightmares.