Every in-library item filed under this category, newest first, with its research summary and organization.
Félix Auguste Clément (1826–1888), *La Sieste* (*Femme romaine endormie*), 1858–59. Canvas, 118 × 197 cm. Second-year envoi from the Académie de France à Rome; exhibited at the Villa Medici in April 1859, at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris that autumn, and at the Salon of 1861 (no. 634). Whereabouts unknown.
A palm still stands behind Mercury’s head in this small sketch, and nowhere in the nine-foot canvas it was made for. What a painter of thirty threw away tells us more about what he wanted than anything he kept.
Benjamin West (1738–1820), Lot Fleeing from Sodom, 1810. Oil on panel, 119.7 × 198.4 cm. Detroit Institute of Arts, 70.831. Exhibited Royal Academy 1811 (no. 188) as Lot and his daughters conducted by two Angels.
