The Snake Charmer (Rousseau)
Henri Rousseau · 1907
The story
The Snake Charmer (French: La Charmeuse de Serpents) is a 1907 oil-on-canvas painting by French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau (1844–1910). It is a depiction of a woman with glowing eyes playing a flute in the moonlight by the edge of a dark jungle with a snake extending toward her from a nearby tree, two near her legs, and one wrapped around her shoulders.
- Artist
- Henri Rousseau
- Date
- 1907
- Collection
- Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
- Movement
- naïve art
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 167 × 189 cm
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