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Rousseau's 'Sleeping Gypsy' (1897)
A lion chances past the sleeper and, serendipitously, doesn't devour her. 'Very poetic,' he said. But Rousseau never left Paris; he built this desert from the botanical garden and, likely, from colonized people displayed at the 1889 World's Fair. The serendipity of the dreamer is the luxury of the one who gets to romanticize a wandering he never had to do.
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