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The Sleeping Gypsy ( French: La Bohémienne endormie) is an 1897 oil on canvas painting by the French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau (1844–1910). It is a fantastical depiction of a lion musing over a sleeping woman on a moonlit night.
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Henri Rousseau. The Sleeping Gypsy. 1897. Oil on canvas. 51" x 6' 7" (129.5 x 200.7 cm). Gift of Mrs. Simon Guggenheim. 646.1939. Painting and Sculpture.
The Sleeping Gypsy is created by Henri Rousseau at 1897. With a mysterious poetry, the lion visits the gypsy woman and her mandolin in this masterful composition that somehow employs hard lines and flattish perspectives to great advantage.
Dec 12, 2023 · The Sleeping Gypsy (French: La Bohémienne endormie) is an 1897 oil painting by French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau (1844–1910). It is a fantastical depiction of a lion musing over a sleeping woman on a moonlit night.
Analysis of The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau. The picture depicts a wandering black-skinned woman who lies fast asleep beneath a moonlit starry sky. By her side is her mandolin and a pitcher of water.
The Sleeping Gypsy, oil painting created in 1897 by French naïve artist Henri Rousseau. This work is perhaps the most important of the period when Rousseau began to receive recognition as an artist and is one of the most famous images of the modern era.
Henri Rousseau 1897. MoMA The Museum of Modern Art. New York, United States. Rousseau described the subject of The Sleeping Gypsy as: "A wandering Negress, a mandolin player, lies with her...
