Mme Greuze asleep - Greuze

Here's the description of La Philosophe endormie, etching by Aliamet after a Greuze drawing close to this one:

"La Babuty is sitting in an armchair, her back propped up by a pillow; she's wearing a night cornet and dozing, as a convalescent would. On her lap is her watchful pug, and beside her is a table laden with books on philosophy; the reading of her father's stock-in-trade has lulled the young woman to sleep, for her right hand rests on one of these large open books. She doesn't show her throat this time; her waist, her neck, the pose of her head, nothing more elegant, nothing more provocative. This etching wonderfully explains all of Diderot's follies, and Greuze's greater ones, and yet there is something in that too-thin mouth, in that slightly pointed nose, that explains the rest of the first seven tranquil years [of the marriage]. The beautiful cheeks, the rounded forms of Greuze's figures, his slightly short noses, the carefree grace of his hairstyles, it's all there; it's the vision of his own ideal, which stopped Greuze on that unfortunate day in the rue Saint-Jacques [when he first spotted M.lle Babuty at her counter.]"