From October 9, 2025 to March 1, 2026, the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris will host L’empire du sommeil, the first exhibition in France to investigate the extraordinary richness of iconographic themes related to sleep and dreams, as well as their evolution over time. Curated by Laura Bossi, a neurologist and historian of science, and Sylvie Carlier, director of collections at the Musée Marmottan Monet, the exhibition focuses on the period from the Enlightenment to the Great War, years in which sleep became the subject of profound artistic, philosophical and scientific reflections. Alongside this central core, a selection of ancient and contemporary works testifies to the constant fascination exerted by this theme, capable of spanning centuries of art history.
The exhibition brings together one hundred and thirty works including paintings, sculptures, drawings, objects and scientific documents from prestigious public and private collections, including the Musée d’Orsay, the Louvre, the Musée National d’Art Moderne, the Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, the Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal, the National Gallery in Prague, the Pitti Palace - Gallery of Modern Art in Florence, and the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid.
Divided into eight thematic sections, the exhibition takes the visitor on a journey through the multiple dimensions of sleep: a territory suspended between stillness and disturbance, knowledge and mystery.
Artists featured include John Everett Millais, Michael Ancher, Evelyn De Morgan, Claude Monet, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Félix Vallotton, Johann Heinrich Füssli, Eugène Delacroix, Federico Zandomeneghi, and Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida.
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