The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897

Henri Rousseau

Oil on canvas · 129.5 x 200.7 cm

A lion sniffs at a sleeping traveller under an impossibly calm desert moon.

Under a still moon a lion sniffs a sleeping musician in the desert, her striped robe glowing. Rousseau's dreamlike 1897 scene, painted with untrained, hypnotic clarity, hovers between innocence and menace — a quiet forerunner of Surrealism.

Museum of Modern Art

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