Henri Rousseau · 1910

The Dream

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Rousseau's last painting — a reclining nude on a Victorian sofa in the middle of a tropical jungle full of staring animals and a flute player. MoMA.

Up to 16 × 11 in · landscape

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

About this painting

The story of The Dream

The Dream 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 this year."

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the artist

Henri Rousseau

Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier, 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.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Frequently asked

The Dream— questions & answers

›What does The Dream by Rousseau mean?

A reclining nude on a Victorian sofa appears in the middle of a tropical jungle full of staring animals and a flute player — one of more than 25 jungle paintings Rousseau made, and his last completed work.

›When was The Dream painted?

Rousseau painted it in 1910 and first exhibited it at the Salon des Indépendants that spring, just months before his death in September 1910. The poet Guillaume Apollinaire declared at its debut: "The picture radiates beauty, that is indisputable."

›Where is The Dream now?

The original is held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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