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''The Lazy Boy'' (French - ''Le Petit Paresseux'') is a 1755 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, now in the
''The Lazy Boy'' (French - ''Le Petit Paresseux'') is a 1755 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, now in the Musée Fabre
The Musée Fabre is a museum in the southern French city of Montpellier, capital of the Hérault ''département''.
The museum was founded by François-Xavier Fabre, a Montpellier painter, in 1825. Beginning in 2003, the museum underwent a 61.2 m ...
in Montpellier
Montpellier (, , ; oc, Montpelhièr ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of ...
, to which it was left in 1837 by François-Xavier Fabre. It depicts a child that felt asleep while reading a book.
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