Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Sleeping Congregation
William Hogarth
- Date
- 1728
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
This rough oil sketch is Hogarth’s earliest dated painting. As a social satirist, Hogarth favored familiar, everyday subjects presented with a wry, comic twist. Here, the minister’s dull sermon has put the entire congregation to sleep before he is halfway through (note the hourglass by the pulpit). England, Europe
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