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How does one depict a man or woman asleep while preserving their identity? If the official portraits displayed in the salons of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture have no answer to this question, the representation of anonymous sleepers, both male and female, their senses tantalised by smell, sound and touch, echoes sensualist philosophy’s enquiry into how the feeling of existence is...