The Sleeping Gypsy is an 1897 oil painting by French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau (1844–1910). It is a fantastical depiction of a lion musing over a sleeping woman on a moonlit night. What is the Sleeping [ … ]
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Under the Lamp by Marie Bracquemond (1887)
Who was Marie Bracquemond? Marie Bracquemond (1840 – 1916) was a French Impressionist artist, who was described retrospectively by Henri Focillon in 1928 as one of “les trois grandes dames” [ … ]
The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope, painting by H. Rousseau
The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope is a large oil-on-canvas painting created by Henri Rousseau in 1905. What is The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope? Following Scouts Attacked by a Tiger the previous [ … ]