The Sleeping Gypsy
by Henri Rousseau
Title
The Sleeping Gypsy
Artist
Henri Rousseau
Medium
Painting
Description
Henri Rousseau The Sleeping Gypsy (1897) The Sleeping Gypsy (French: La Bohemienne endormie) is an 1897 oil painting by French Naive artist Henri Rousseau. The fantastical depiction of a lion musing over a sleeping woman on a moonlit night is one of the most recognizable artworks of modern times. Henri Julien Felix Rousseau was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naive or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll collector. Ridiculed during his lifetime, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality.
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May 18th, 2014
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