One Fine Show: “Henri Rousseau, A Painter’s Secrets” at the Barnes Foundation

Henri Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897. Oil on canvas, the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, 1939. © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY

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