# Sleeping Student [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VERHOUT, Constantijn]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on panel, 38 x 31 cm ## Commentary This panel is a genre piece and shows a young student asleep at his desk, one hand tucked into his jacket. In front of him are his gloves, a notebook, a pen and inkhorn, and six books, five of them piled up in a towerlike arrangement, which becomes the focus of the composition. Probably the painting conveys a moral message. It can be seen as a vanitas picture. Alternatively, it could be viewed as a representation of one of the seven deadly sins: sloth. ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()