Answer the following about paintings of sleeping women, for 10 points each.
[10e] This French realist's painting of a postcoital lesbian couple, The Sleepers, has also been displayed under the comically oblivious title Two Friends. He also painted the much less erotic Burial at Ornans.
ANSWER: Gustave Courbet [or Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet]
[10m] Two satyrs absolutely freak out while lecherously observing a goddess in this Symbolist artist's Sleeping Diana Watched by Two Fauns. His best known series depicts an island with a dense cypress grove ringed by rocky cliffs.
ANSWER: Arnold Böcklin (That series is the Isle of the Dead.)
[10h] Andrew Lloyd Webber's grandmother once refused to lend him 50 pounds to buy this artist’s portrait of a sleeping woman. This illustrator of George Eliot’s Romola painted the erroneously-titled Cimabue’s Celebrated Madonna.
ANSWER: Sir Frederic Leighton (The portrait was Leighton’s Flaming June.)
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