# The Sleep of the Infant Jesus

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## Artwork

- Artist: [SASSOFERRATO](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sassoferrato-r7dffa8d03891cc>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 77 x 61 cm

## Commentary

This composition of the Madonna gently caressing the sleeping Christ Child was one of the artist&#39;s favourites.

## Related artworks

- [Holy Family](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sassoferrato-r7dffa8d03891cc/holy-family-r259aaba08a9e88>)
- [Holy Family with the Infant St John the Baptist and St Elizabeth](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sassoferrato-r7dffa8d03891cc/holy-family-with-the-infant-st-john-the-baptist-and-st-elizabeth-rb667ad37e9004d>)
- [Madonna and Child](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sassoferrato-r7dffa8d03891cc/madonna-and-child-r0bff70c8abae84>)
- [Madonna at Prayer](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sassoferrato-r7dffa8d03891cc/madonna-at-prayer-r1823d5f3952401>)
- [Madonna at Prayer](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sassoferrato-r7dffa8d03891cc/madonna-at-prayer-r6c9c324f79bb5d>)
- [Madonna in Prayer](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sassoferrato-r7dffa8d03891cc/madonna-in-prayer-r519278a23d4145>)
- [Madonna with the Christ Child](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sassoferrato-r7dffa8d03891cc/madonna-with-the-christ-child-re95e1bae977e60>)
- [Portrait of Monsignor Ottaviano Prati](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sassoferrato-r7dffa8d03891cc/portrait-of-monsignor-ottaviano-prati-rb62677e9bc5ff3>)
- [The Madonna](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sassoferrato-r7dffa8d03891cc/the-madonna-r29e4b77de2be04>)
- [The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sassoferrato-r7dffa8d03891cc/the-mystic-marriage-of-st-catherine-r3bc2c712ab97fc>)
- [The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sassoferrato-r7dffa8d03891cc/the-mystic-marriage-of-st-catherine-rd9e5f456827070>)
- [The Sleep of the Infant Jesus](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sassoferrato-r7dffa8d03891cc/the-sleep-of-the-infant-jesus-r092125cc4b42aa>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)