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The Sleeping Gypsy

Painting, Oil paint, Primitivism 

Height 129.5cm, Width 200.7cm


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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 ...
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Henri Rousseau
France
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Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910) was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humor ...
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Pieter Paul Rubens Gallery

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Unveiling the Enchanting Narrative of Rousseau's "The Sleeping Gypsy"

Henri Rousseau's *The Sleeping Gypsy* (1897) is a captivating and enigmatic painting that exudes a dreamlike quality. The artwork portrays a serene desert night under a luminous full moon, where a lion curiously approaches a sleeping gypsy woman. The gypsy, dressed in a vibrantly striped, Oriental ...
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Unveiling the Enchanting Narrative of Rousseau's "The Sleeping Gypsy"

SUMMARY


Henri Rousseau's *The Sleeping Gypsy* (1897) is a captivating and enigmatic painting that exudes a dreamlike quality. The artwork portrays a serene desert night under a luminous full moon, where a lion curiously approaches a sleeping gypsy woman. The gypsy, dressed in a vibrantly striped, Oriental ...
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