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The blissful cloud of summer-indolence Benumb'd my eyes; my pulse grew less and less; Pain had no string, and pleasure's wreath no flower: O, why did ye not melt, and leave my sense Unhaunted quite of all but-nothingness?

John Keats, Ode on Indolence, 1819

#literature #indolence #keats #ode

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Handerson Thayer

Half Draped Figure

1885

#thayer #nude #drapery #woman #art #art history #impressionism #timeline #1885 #fds #silence #fin de siecle #sadness #indolence #vacancy #femme fragile #melancholy

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Reclining Woman with Red Blouse - Egon Schiele 1908

Source: wikipaintings.org

#Egon Schiele #Schiele #reclining woman #Austrian expressionism #expressionism #sleep #sleeping woman #sleep-death #sleep death #sleep dead #silence #leisure #siesta #nap #quiet #solitude #indolence #convalescence

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Paul Gauguin Vahine no te tiare (Woman with a flower) 1891

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Èdouard Manet

The Rest (Portrait of Berthe Morisot)

1880

Source: artfinder.com

#manet #berthe morisot #morisot #the rest #rest #FDS #fin de siècle #edouard manet #19th century #french #art #art history #indolence #quiet #silence #femme fragile

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John White Alexander

Repose

1895

#Repose #quiet #indolence #solitude #FDS #sleep #sleep death #sleep-dead

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Red Berries (detail), Albert Joseph Moore. English (1841-1893)

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Re: Dijkstra's note on "extinguished eyes" Bourgeois Boredom: Fin-de-Siècle Women and the Domestic Sphere (text post)

#Red berries #Moore #English #FDS #pre-Raphaelite #extinguished eyes #vacant #indolence #ennui #boredom #bourgeois #reading #rest cure #bed rest #in bed #women #art history #Figures (image references)

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Resting, Victor Gabriel Gilbert. French (1847-1933)

#FDS #sleep #Gilbert #femme fragile #decadence #sleeping #sleeping beauty #indolence #French

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Francisco de Goya (Spanish)

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

Etching, Plate 43, Los Caprichos, c. 1797

Source: Wikipedia

#precedents #romanticism #goya #sleep of reason #caprichos #18th century #etching #sources #historical #images #sleep #eyes closed #sleeping women #indolence #sleep-death #listlessness #asleep #sleeping woman

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Henri Gervex (French)

La Rolla, 1878

#decadence #19th century #french #gervex #la rolla #painting #sleep #eyes closed #sleeping women #indolence #sleep-death #listlessness #asleep #sleeping woman #fin-de-siècle

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Sleep, William Powell Frith. English (1819-1909)

#sleep #eyes closed #sleeping women #indolence #sleep-death #listlessness #asleep #sleeping woman #fin-de-siècle

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Asleep in the Studio, 1889, Georges Roussin. French (1854-1941)

#sleep #eyes closed #sleeping women #indolence #sleep-death #listlessness #asleep #sleeping woman

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Two Women Asleep in a Punt under the Willows, John Singer Sargent. American (1856-1925)

#sleep #eyes closed #sleeping women #indolence #sleep-death #listlessness #asleep #sleeping woman #fin-de-siècle

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Woman Reclining, John Singer Sargent. American (1856-1925)

#sleep #eyes closed #sleeping women #indolence #sleep-death #listlessness #asleep #fds

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Recalling the Past, 1888, Carlton Alfred Smith. English (1853–1946)

#sleep #eyes closed #sleeping women #indolence #sleep-death #listlessness #asleep #sleeping woman #fin-de-siècle

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Elaine, the Lily Maid of Astolat, Edward Henry Corbould. English (1815 - 1905)

#eyes closed #sleeping women #indolence #sleep-death #listlessness #asleep #sleeping woman #sleepingdead #sleep #death #appear dead #sleep?

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The dream, Gustave Jean Jacquet. French (1846-1909)

#sleep #eyes closed #sleeping women #indolence #sleep-death #listlessness #asleep #fds