The Sleeping Gypsy

Completion Date: 1897 Style: Primitivism Technique: Oil Material: Canvas

henri_rousseauHenri Julien Félix Rousseau (1844 – 1910) was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll collector. Ridiculed during his life, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality.