The Sleeping Gypsy
Henri Rousseau · 1897
The story
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.
- Artist
- Henri Rousseau
- Date
- 1897
- Collection
- MoMA, New York, United States
- Movement
- naïve art
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 129.5 × 200.7 cm
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