- Philippe Laurent Roland, Sleeping Boy (c. 1774)
- William Blake, The House of Lazarus (1795)
- Francisco de Goya, Plate 43 from Los Caprichos: The Sleep of Reason produces Monsters (1799)
- Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Little Idler (1755)
- Dorothy asleep, a movie still from The Wizard of Oz
- Delegates sleep during the Conservative Party Annual Conference in England (2012)
- Tom Wesselmann, Nude (For Sedfre) (1969)
- Constantin Brâncuși, Sleeping Muse (1910)
- Giorgione, The Sleeping Venus (c. 1510)
- John Singer Sargent, Two Girls on a Lawn (1889)
- Johannes Vermeer, A Maid Asleep (c. 1656-57)
- Tilda Swinton performs The Maybe at MoMA, New York (2013)
- Henri Gervex, Rolla (1878)
- Greek, Hellenistic period, Bronze statue of Eros sleeping (c. 3rd-2nd century B.C.)
- Nan Goldin, French Chris on the convertible, NYC (1979)
- Robert Rauschenberg, Bed (1955)
- Andy Warhol, Sleep (1963)
- Joan Miró, Femme rêvant de l’évasion (1945)
- René Magritte, La Victoire (1938 or 1939)
- Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, The Bed (Le Lit) (1892)
- Jacob Duck, Sleeping Soldiers (c. 1645)
- Nan Goldin, Greer and Robert on the Bed, NYC (1982)
- Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare (1781)