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The Sleeping Gypsy
Henri Rousseau

The Sleeping Gypsy

1897John Quinn Art Collection; Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Modern Art · New York City

The Sleeping Gypsy (French: La Bohémienne endormie) 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. The painting was featured in the 1980 BBC Two series 100 Great Paintings.

Subject
lion, full moon, desert, Romani people

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