"Which French painter, a customs official, painted ""The Sleeping Gypsy"", and ""The Hungry Lion""?"
"The Sleeping Gypsy The Sleeping Gypsy (French: ""La Bohémienne endormie"") 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. Rousseau first exhibited the painting at the 13th Salon des Indépendants, and tried unsuccessfully to sell it to the mayor of his hometown, Laval. Instead, it entered the private collection of a Parisian charcoal merchant where it remained until 1924, when it was discovered by the art critic Louis Vauxcelles. The Paris-based art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler purchased the painting in 1924,"
"although a controversy arose over whether the painting was a forgery. It was acquired by art historian Alfred H. Barr Jr. for the New York Museum of Modern Art. Rousseau described his painting as follows: ""A wandering Negress, a mandolin player, lies with her jar beside her (a vase with drinking water), overcome by fatigue in a deep sleep. A lion chances to pass by, picks up her scent yet does not devour her. There is a moonlight effect, very poetic."" The Sleeping Gypsy The Sleeping Gypsy (French: ""La Bohémienne endormie"") is an 1897 oil painting by French Naïve artist"
"the years. ""Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!)"" was exhibited in 1891, and Rousseau received his first serious review when the young artist Félix Vallotton wrote: ""His tiger surprising its prey ought not to be missed; it's the alpha and omega of painting."" Yet it was more than a decade before Rousseau returned to depicting his vision of jungles. In 1893, Rousseau moved to a studio in Montparnasse where he lived and worked until his death in 1910. In 1897, he produced one of his most famous paintings, ""La Bohémienne endormie"" (""The Sleeping Gypsy""). In 1905, Rousseau's large jungle scene"
"to Italy, and Michael and Sarah Stein became important patrons of Matisse, while Gertrude Stein continued to collect Picasso. The Salon d'Automne of 1905 brought notoriety and attention to the works of Henri Matisse and the Les Fauves group. The latter gained their name after critic Louis Vauxcelles described their work with the phrase ""Donatello chez les fauves"" (""Donatello among the wild beasts""), contrasting the paintings with a Renaissance-type sculpture that shared the room with them. Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), an artist that Picasso knew and admired and who was not a Fauve, had his large jungle scene ""The Hungry Lion"
"The Gypsy Girl The Gypsy Girl (sometimes erroneously referred to as ""Malle Babbe"") is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1628 and now in the Louvre Museum. It is a tronie, a study of facial expression and unusual costume, rather than a commissioned portrait. The display of cleavage was not a common feature of costume seen in public in Hals' time and place. This painting was catalogued by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote ""119. THE GYPSY GIRL. B. 41; M. 263 - Half-length; life size. A laughing gipsy girl, seen almost in"
"The Charging Chasseur The Charging Chasseur, or An Officer of the Imperial Horse Guards Charging is an oil painting on canvas of about 1812 by the French painter Théodore Géricault, portraying a mounted Napoleonic cavalry officer who is ready to attack. The painting was Géricault's first exhibited work and it is an example of Géricault's attempt to condense both movement and structure in its art. it represents French romanticism and has a motif similar to Jacques-Louis David's ""Napoleon Crossing the Alps"", but non-classical characteristics of the picture include its dramatic diagonal arrangement and vigorous paint handling. In ""The Charging Chasseur"","
"model was a gypsy. Girls painted by Hals who are wearing similar chemises: The Gypsy Girl The Gypsy Girl (sometimes erroneously referred to as ""Malle Babbe"") is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1628 and now in the Louvre Museum. It is a tronie, a study of facial expression and unusual costume, rather than a commissioned portrait. The display of cleavage was not a common feature of costume seen in public in Hals' time and place. This painting was catalogued by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote ""119. THE GYPSY GIRL. B. 41;"
"simplicity, Rousseau's jungle paintings were built up meticulously in layers, using a large number of green shades to capture the lush exuberance of the jungle. Rousseau's work continued to be derided by the critics up to and after his death in 1910, but he won a following among his contemporaries: Picasso, Matisse, and Toulouse-Lautrec were all admirers of his work. ""The Hungry Lion"" is now held by the Fondation Beyeler and is exhibited at their gallery at Riehen, near Basel, in Switzerland. Previously. in 1905, it had been exhibited in the Salon des Independants, in Paris. The Hungry Lion Throws"
"Henri Rousseau Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (; May 21, 1844 – September 2, 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 and tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties; by age 49, he retired from his job to work on his art full-time. Ridiculed during his lifetime by critics, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. Rousseau's work exerted an extensive influence on several generations"
"in a travelling exhibition in the United States, 1983, encouraged a reassessment of this purely French portraitist and genre painter. Jean-Baptiste Oudry Jean-Baptiste Oudry (; 17 March 1686 – 30 April 1755) was a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his naturalistic pictures of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game. Jean-Baptiste Oudry was born in Paris, the son of Jacques Oudry, a painter and art dealer, and his wife Nicole Papillon, relative of the engraver Jean-Baptiste-Michel Papillon. His father was a director of the ""Académie de St-Luc"" art school, which Oudry joined."
"Le Sommeil Le Sommeil (translated in English variously as The Sleepers and Sleep) is an erotic oil painting on canvas by French artist Gustave Courbet created in 1866. The painting, which depicts lesbianism, is also known as the Two Friends (""Les Deux Amies"") and Indolence and Lust (""Paresse et Luxure""). ""Le Sommeil"" was originally commissioned by the Turkish diplomat and art collector of the late Ottoman era, Halil Şerif Paşa, who had lived in Paris since 1860. The painting was not permitted to be shown publicly until 1988, like a number of his other works such as ""L'Origine du monde""."
"The Wounded Cuirassier The Wounded Cuirassier () is an oil painting of a single anonymous soldier descending a slope with his horse by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824). In this 1814 Salon entry, Géricault decided to depict a different view of battle than the generally done views of entire battles or of famous generals bravely fighting. On display just a few months after Napoleon's fall from power, this life-size painting symbolized the French defeats and Napoleon's failure. Though the painting is called ""The Wounded Cuirassier"", there are no visible wounds on the soldier. Additionally, though Géricault"
"de peinture et de sculpture for their official Paris Salon, but he was able to show it at the 1891 Salon des Indépendants. Despite his increasing reputation, Rousseau continued to exhibit his works at the annual Salon des Indépendants, but ""The Hungry Lion"" was first shown at a third show, the Salon d'Automne, in 1905, alongside works by Matisse and Derain. Rousseau wrote a longer subtitle or caption to accompany his painting: The magazine ""L'Illustration"" printed a copy of the work in its edition of 4 November 1905, with works by Matisse, Derain, Cézanne and Vuillard. The avante garde works"
"Jean-Baptiste Oudry Jean-Baptiste Oudry (; 17 March 1686 – 30 April 1755) was a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his naturalistic pictures of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game. Jean-Baptiste Oudry was born in Paris, the son of Jacques Oudry, a painter and art dealer, and his wife Nicole Papillon, relative of the engraver Jean-Baptiste-Michel Papillon. His father was a director of the ""Académie de St-Luc"" art school, which Oudry joined. At first, Oudry concentrated on portraiture, and he became a pupil and perhaps a collaborator of Nicolas de Largillière from"
"The Laundress (Daumier) The Laundress (La Blanchisseuse) (also known in English as ""The Washerwoman"") is an oil-on-panel painted by French artist Honoré Daumier in 1863. It is currently held and exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Acquired by the Louvre in 1927 and since 1986 exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay, this painting has another two versions, currently housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery of Buffalo, New York. Daumier lived on the Quai d'Anjou on the Île Saint-Louis, and had plenty of opportunities for observing the attitudes of the washerwomen returning from the"
"The Magpie (Monet) The Magpie () is an oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the French Impressionist Claude Monet, created during the winter of 1868–1869 near the commune of Étretat in Normandy. Monet's patron, Louis Joachim Gaudibert, helped arrange a house in Étretat for Monet's fiancée Camille Doncieux and their newborn son, allowing Monet to paint in relative comfort, surrounded by his family. Between 1867 and 1893, Monet and fellow Impressionists Alfred Sisley and Camille Pissarro painted hundreds of landscapes illustrating the natural effect of snow (""effet de neige""). Similar winter paintings were produced by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gustave Caillebotte, and Paul Gauguin."
"Jupiter and Antiope (Watteau) Jupiter and Antiope (French: ""Jupiter et Antiope"") is an oil painting by the French artist Antoine Watteau. It is also known as the Satyr and the Sleeping Nymph and was probably painted between 1714 and 1719. Intended to be placed over a doorway, today it hangs in the Louvre in Paris. The painting is oval shaped, with a width of 107.5 cm and a height of 73 cm. In the foreground it depicts the naked, sleeping Antiope. She lies with her head on the left edge of the painting, twisted so that her front side faces"
"The Dream (Rousseau painting) The Dream (French: ""Le Rêve"", occasionally also known as ""Le Songe"" or ""Rêve exotique"") is a large oil-on-canvas painting created by Henri Rousseau in 1910, one of more than 25 Rousseau paintings with a jungle theme. His last completed work, it was first exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants from 18 March to 1 May 1910, a few months before his death on 2 September 1910. Rousseau's earlier works had received a negative reception, but poet and critic Guillaume Apollinaire remarked on its debut: ""The picture radiates beauty, that is indisputable. I believe nobody will laugh"
"The Painting The Painting () is a 2011 French animated film directed by Jean-François Laguionie. For mysterious reasons, a Painter has left a work incomplete - causing conflict between the Toupins (Allduns), who are entirely painted, the Pafinis (Halfies), who lack a few colors, and the Reufs (Sketchies), who are only sketches. Toupins occupy the chateau, Pafinis are out in the gardens, and Reufs are treated as outcasts and hunted by the Toupins. Three friends, one of each class, go on a quest to find the artist so he can finish the piece and hopefully unite the people. The film"
"Théodore Géricault Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (; 26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824) was an influential French painter and lithographer, whose best-known painting is ""The Raft of the Medusa"". Although he died young, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement. Born in Rouen, France, Géricault was educated in the tradition of English sporting art by Carle Vernet and classical figure composition by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, a rigorous classicist who disapproved of his student's impulsive temperament while recognizing his talent. Géricault soon left the classroom, choosing to study at the Louvre, where from 1810 to 1815 he copied"
"of the late Guermantes, who was a lover of hunting paintings. Albert de Balleroy Comte Albert Felix Justin de la Cour de Balleroy (15 August 1828 – 19 August 1872) was a French painter, etcher and parliamentarian. Both a painter and an etcher, Balleroy specialised in depicting subjects related to hunting. ""Le Cerf à l'hallali"" (The Deer at the Hunting Cry) may now be found at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen ""Le Débuché"" (Breaking Cover) is at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England. His large canvases often depicted packs of hounds; four hunting scenes are found in"
"The Shepherd Paris (van Dyck) The Shepherd Paris is a c.1628 painting by the Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck, dating to just after the artist's return from Italy and showing the strong influence of Titian. It shows Paris during the Judgement of Paris, holding the golden apple he has been ordered to give to the most beautiful of three goddesses - unusually the artist focuses on Paris and does not show the goddesses themselves. A painting of Paris recorded as owned by the marquis de Voyer d’Argenson in 1754 is probably to be identified with this work. It is now"
"the resistless force of natural genius. He is also featured in the French thriller ""L'Antiquaire"", with some works credited to him—a painting of two Leopards, among others. Jacques-Laurent Agasse Jacques-Laurent Agasse (April 24, 1767 – December 27, 1849) was an animal and landscape painter from Switzerland. Born at Geneva, Agasse studied in the public art school of that city. Before he turned twenty he went to Paris to study in veterinary school to make himself fully acquainted with the anatomy of horses and other animals. He seems to have subsequently returned to Switzerland. The ""Tübinger Morgenblatt"" (1808, p. 876) says"
"The Laundress (Chardin) The Laundress (French - ""La Blanchisseuse"") or A Young Girl Doing Laundry (""Une petite femme s'occupant à savonner"") is the title of three works by the French artist Jean Siméon Chardin. Signed in the top left, the prime version dates to between 1733 and 1740 - it formed part of the Crozat collection, which was mostly acquired by Catherine II of Russia on the advice of Denis Diderot in 1772, and so is now in the Hermitage Museum. It measures 38 by 48 cm. A second version is now in the Nationalmuseum Stockholm - it is smaller"
"there to the USA in 1794 and died completely bankrupt in Philadelphia around 1800. Henri Roland Lancelot Turpin de Crissé Henri-Roland-Lancelot, marquis Turpin de Crissé (19 May 1754 - c.1800) was a French army officer and amateur painter, most notable for his landscapes and architectural studies. He was born in Paris and married the painter Émilie-Sophie de Montullé. When the French Revolution broke out he was dismissed from his commission. To try to survive he bought new buildings in 1792 and tried to set up a factory to produce English-style faience. However, in 1793 he was forced to sell this"
"Hunting (Carracci) Hunting (or ""Hunting Scene"") is a painting by Italian artist Annibale Carracci, painted before 1595 and given to Louis XIV by Prince Camillo Pamphili in 1665. It is currently held and exhibited at the Louvre in Paris. The painting and its companion, ""Fishing"", were included in Charles Le Brun's inventory in 1683, and in November 1695 they were in the apartments of King Louis XIV's younger brother. It was no doubt for this purpose that they were given two sumptuous gilt frames, each with attributes suited to the subject of the painting – among the finest examples of"
"in the Musée du Louvre. In 1712–13 he spent six months in England. He received many commissions for decorative panels for the royal châteaux: Versailles, Marly, Meudon, Compiègne and, his last royal commission, for Louis XV at Choisy, 1742. He also did decorative paintings for the duc de Bourbon at Chantilly. Both Louis XIV and Louis XV commissioned portraits of their favorite hunting dogs. Desportes would follow the royal hunt with a small notebook he carried to make on-site sketches for still lives of the game that resulted from the day's hunt, for the king to make a choice of"
"less directly, those of de Chirico) influenced the style of the French animated movie ""Le Roi et l'oiseau,"" by Paul Grimault and Prévert. Yves Tanguy Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 – January 15, 1955), known as Yves Tanguy, was a French surrealist painter. Tanguy, the son of a retired navy captain, was born at the Ministry of Naval Affairs on Place de la Concorde in Paris, France. His parents were both of Breton origin. After his father's death in 1908, his mother moved back to her native Locronan, Finistère, and he ended up spending much of his youth"
"The Hireling Shepherd The Hireling Shepherd (1851) is a painting by the Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt. It represents a shepherd neglecting his flock in favour of an attractive country girl to whom he shows a death's-head hawkmoth. The meaning of the image has been much debated. Hunt painted the picture when he was living and working in close collaboration with John Everett Millais, who was painting ""Ophelia"" at the same time near the Hogsmill River near Ewell, Surrey. Both paintings depict English rural scenes, the innocence of which is disturbed by subtle but profoundly threatening violations of natural harmony."
"generally created several drafts before settling on a final design, there do not seem to be any paintings of his that could be considered precursors to this painting. Only his ""Signboard of a Hoofsmith"", which is currently in a private collection, bears any resemblance in form or function to this painting. The two known copies of the painting are at the Musée du Louvre and at the Brooklyn Museum. The Wounded Cuirassier The Wounded Cuirassier () is an oil painting of a single anonymous soldier descending a slope with his horse by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault"
"admired by artists. Manet found inspiration in the ""Fishing"", and the ""Hunting"" has been copied by Matisse, Edvard Munch and Rouault. Hunting (Carracci) Hunting (or ""Hunting Scene"") is a painting by Italian artist Annibale Carracci, painted before 1595 and given to Louis XIV by Prince Camillo Pamphili in 1665. It is currently held and exhibited at the Louvre in Paris. The painting and its companion, ""Fishing"", were included in Charles Le Brun's inventory in 1683, and in November 1695 they were in the apartments of King Louis XIV's younger brother. It was no doubt for this purpose that they were"
"would have been over eighty years old at the time of the incident depicted. Daniel in the Lions' Den (painting) Daniel in the Lions' Den is a 1614–1616 painting by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. The subject is from the Book of Daniel, 6:1–28. Rubens modelled the lions on a Moroccan subspecies, examples of which were then in the Spanish governor's menagerie in Brussels. In 1618 he acquired more than a hundred pieces of classical sculpture, in exchange for this painting, eight others and a sum of money. Although"
"The Laundress (Greuze) The Laundress () is a 1761 genre painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805). Its development was influenced by Dutch cabinet painting and the imagery of the laundress made popular through a literary style known as """". ""The Laundress"" was one of fourteen works exhibited by Greuze at the Salon of 1761 and was part of the collection of Greuze's patron, Ange Laurent Lalive de Jully. The painting was mostly unknown for more than two centuries as it was purchased in 1770 by Gustaf Adolf Sparre and privately held in that Swedish art collection and rarely seen"