Which artist painted The Sleeping Gypsy in 1897?

Which artist painted The Sleeping Gypsy in 1897? Henri Rousseau painted it.

The French artist's oil painting shows a sleeping woman in a colorful robe, a mandolin and water jar beside her, while a maned lion cautiously sniffs her. Rousseau gave the scene a poetic explanation: a wandering musician has fallen asleep in an arid landscape, and the lion encounters her without attacking.

Completed in 1897, the painting reflects Rousseau's distinctive naïve style, with simplified forms, strong blocks of color, and an intensely theatrical moonlit setting. Although he had no formal academic training, Rousseau became an important figure for later avant-garde artists, who admired the imaginative directness of his work.

The Sleeping Gypsy was first exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris in 1897. It is now in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where it hangs near Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night. A frequent visual mistake is identifying the instrument beside the woman as a lute; it is generally described as a mandolin.