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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.
The Sleeping Gypsy, oil painting created in 1897 by French naive artist Henri Rousseau. This work is perhaps the most important of the period when Rousseau began to receive recognition as an artist and is on of the most famous images of the modern era.
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 & 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.
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 (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.
One of MoMA’s most iconic paintings went missing for decades before it was first hung on the Museum’s walls in 1939. When he completed The Sleeping Gypsy in 1897, Henri Rousseau offered to sell the painting to his hometown of Laval, 200 miles southwest of Paris. The offer was declined.
Rousseau described the subject of The Sleeping Gypsy as: "A wandering Negress, a mandolin player, lies with her jar beside her (a vase with drinking water), overcome by fatigue in...
“The Sleeping Gypsy” is an oil on canvas artwork by Henri Rousseau created in 1897. It measures 200.7 by 129.5 cm and belongs to the Naïve Art movement, specifically Primitivism. This genre painting is known for its dreamlike and poetic quality.
The Sleeping Gypsy shows a lion and a woman sleeping in a desert. The moon is out and the sky is clear, with a few stars shown throughout the darkness. In the background are a few soft mountains and flat earth. The woman sleeping is wearing a colorful dress and lying next to a vase and a guitar.