Under a full moon in an empty desert, a woman in a striped robe sleeps beside her mandolin and water jar while a lion sniffs at her but does not attack. Henri Rousseau, a self-taught painter who had worked in the Paris toll service, called the moonlight effect 'very poetic'. He tried and failed to sell it to his home town of Laval.
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Her rainbow-striped robe and blanket are flat bands of colour, and the smooth sand shows no footprints, as if sleeper and lion simply appeared there.
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