# Two Sleeping Children with Sheep

- By: François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)
- Date: 1758–63
- Medium: Etching and engraving on laid paper
- Classification: Prints
- Culture: France
- Credit line: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/27965)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/e52314757dcadbaf3062d5dad18bd893.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A boy and a girl lay sleeping in a leafy landscape with three sheep behind them. A girl to the right, leans against a mound, with her skirt pulled up, holding grapes and vine leaves. The boy to the left, sleeps with his head in his arms leaning against a mound or rock. The plate is signed and numbered.