The Sleeping Gypsy is an 1897 oil on canvas painting by the French Naive artist Henri Rousseau, now in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It presents a fantastical night scene in which a maned lion approaches to sniff a sleeping woman, identified as a Romany gypsy, who lies in an arid desert landscape beneath a starlit sky and full moon, dressed in a long striped robe and resting on similarly patterned fabric with a staff, a mandolin and a water jar beside her. The painting was donated to the Museum of Modern Art by Olga Guggenheim in 1939 and today hangs near Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Sleeping Gypsy (French: La Bohémienne endormie) is an 1897 oil on canvas painting by the French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau (1844-1910).
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It is held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, to which it was donated by Olga Guggenheim in 1939.
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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.
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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.
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It is a fantastical depiction of a lion musing over a sleeping woman on a moonlit night.
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