The Sleeping Gypsy
The story
A lute beside a sleeping black-skinned woman in a striped tunic in a moonlit desert; a tawny lion stands inches from her face, sniffing. Painted in 1897 — Rousseau's most famous canvas.
- Artist
- Henri Rousseau
- Year
- 1897
- Period
- Impressionist
- Where it lives
- Merged from fragments found at MoMA.org
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
