Henri Rousseau · 1897
The Sleeping Gypsy
Posters from $15 · Canvas from $39
Rousseau's dreamlike desert scene — a woman sleeps under a full moon while a curious lion sniffs at her side. Self-taught Naïve art at its most haunting.
Up to 24 × 15 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of The Sleeping Gypsy
The Sleeping Gypsy 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. It is held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, to which it was donated by Olga Guggenheim in 1939. In the museum, the painting is housed next to Vincent van Gogh's famous 1889 painting The Starry Night.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Henri Rousseau
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier, a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties; by age 49, he retired from his job to work on his art full-time.
All Henri Rousseau prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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