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Henri Rousseau
Myself: Portrait-Landscape, oil on canvas by Henri Rousseau, 1890; in the National Gallery, Prague. 146 × 113 cm.
Henri Rousseau painted The Sleeping Gypsy in 1897. This iconic work by the French naïve artist is celebrated for its dreamlike quality and remains one of the most recognizable images of the modern era.1