“The Sleep of Endymion” is an oil painting created in 1791 by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, then resident at the Académie de France in Rome. His depiction of the alabaster body of Endymion, the sleeping shepherd boy, is more romantic than neo-classical. Endymion is lying on a panther skin and his weapons are at his feet. A dog watches over him while the west wind Zephyr pushes aside the foliage so that the moonbeams can brush against him. This painting by Girodet was a great success, both in Rome and at the Paris Salon. The canvas is hung in the Louvre’s Salle Daru.