| The Lazy Boy | |
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| Artist | Jean-Baptiste Greuze |
| Year | 1755 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 65 cm × 54.5 cm (26 in × 21.5 in) |
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The Lazy Boy (French - Le Petit Paresseux) is a 1755 oil on canvas painted by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze. The painting is now in the Musée Fabre, in Montpellier, to which it was left in 1837 by François-Xavier Fabre. First exhibited at the Salon of 1755 at the Louvre in Paris, it depicts a child that felt asleep while reading a book.
