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The Lazy Boy

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The Lazy Boy (1755) by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

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

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  1. ^ "Catalogue entry" (in French).