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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.
On the right a woman sits, nursing a baby. The woman has been described as a gypsy since at least 1530, [1] and in Italy, the painting is also known as La Zingara e il Soldato ("The Gypsy Woman and the Soldier"), [2] or as La Zingarella e il Soldato ("The Gypsy Girl and the Soldier"). [3]
The Gypsy Girl, also known as Gypsy Girl [1] or Young Woman (La Bohémienne) [2] (and sometimes erroneously referred to as Malle Babbe) is an oil-on-wood painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1628–1630, and now in the Louvre Museum, in Paris.
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (French: [ɑ̃ʁi ʒyljɛ̃ feliks ʁuso]; 21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910) [1] was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner.
The etching, 1764, based on the lost painting, published by John Boydell. Thomas Gainsborough was the first British artist to make a major study of the subject of Romani people, [1] [2] beginning with two paintings in the 1750s, the first of which he never finished, and the second of which is now lost, but survives in an etching by Gainsborough.
The "Gypsy Madonna" is a 19th-century name for the painting, because of the Virgin's supposed "dusky complexion and her dark hair and eyes," she was seen as resembling a Romani woman. She seems young even by the standards of Madonnas, and the hands of the Child are unusually engaged, respectively with his mother's fingers and her dress (this is ...
His emphasis on gypsy paintings which he exhibited at the Royal Watercolour Society earned him the name 'Gypsy Oakley'. Oakley met Thomas Baker in Leamington Spa, where Baker was living and working and in 1841 did a portrait of the celebrated painter, who was an important figure in the Midlands and Birmingham art world. [3]
Charles Roka (Róka Károly; 1912–1999) was a Hungarian painter living in Norway whose name became synonymous with an excess of artistic kitsch. [1] [2] Roka was born in Hungary in 1912. After he finished his studies on the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest he went on a European journey.