Sleep is an oil on canvas painting by the painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, created in 1867.

[1] Presented at the Salon of French Artists of 1867, the painting was inspired by a verse from Virgil's, Aeneid (II, 268).

This painting demonstrates Puvis de Chavannes departing from the romantic tradition that marked his early work.

The reduced palette, with muted tones of beige, blue and pink, which only the setting sun illuminates, creates an atmosphere of torpor.

One of them, who once belong to French stockbroker Theodore Gadala is kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.