The Lazy Boy

The Lazy Boy (French - Le Petit Paresseux) is a 1755 oil on canvas painted by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze.[1] The painting is now in the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, to which it was left in 1837 by François-Xavier Fabre. First exhibited at the Salon of 1755 at the Louvre in Paris, it depicts a child that felt asleep while reading a book.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Bindé, Joséphine (2025-09-18). "Sous ses dehors tendres, le portraitiste des enfants, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, face à la violence de la société du siècle des Lumières au Petit Palais". Beaux Arts (in French). Retrieved 2026-01-09.
  2. ^ "- Musée Fabre". www.museefabre.fr. Retrieved 2026-01-09.
  3. ^ "Jean-Baptiste Greuze au Petit Palais, le peintre qui jeta une lumière crue sur l'enfance". www.telerama.fr (in French). 2025-10-07. Retrieved 2026-01-09.
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