The Hammock

 ( 1844 Paintings ) 

The Hammock (French: Le Rêve, German: Die Hängematte) is an 1844 oil painting by the French artist Gustave Courbet. It depicts a partially nude young woman sleeping on a hammock in a shady, wooded glade with a brook passing nearby. Lindsay p.26 Søland, Benninghaus & Maynes p.135 It makes reference to Victor Hugo's 1829 poem Sara the Bather. It was submitted to the Salon of 1845 at the Louvre in Paris, but rejected by the authorities.

The painting is in the Oskar Reinhart at Am Römerholz in Winterthur in /ref>

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• Lindsay, Jack. Gustave Courbet: His Life and Art. Adams and Dart, 1973.
• Søland, Birgitte, Benninghaus, Christina & Maynes, Mary Jo (ed.) Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History, 1750-1960. Indiana University Press, 2005.