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The Repast of the Lion by Henri Rousseau, 1907
He'd never seen a jungle. From what I've read the closest he got was the glasshouses at the botanical gardens in Paris, and he built the plants up from there. He had a day job and taught himself, and the critics gave him a hard time for it.
Erisava: Those plants look like houseplants that got out of hand.
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St. Jerome in His Study by Albrecht Dürer, 1514
This one's grouped with two other Dürer engravings as his 'Master Prints,' from what I've read — three prints meant to show off everything the medium could do.
Erisava: I can't believe this much detail fits on something the size of a book page.
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The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau, 1897
He was a toll clerk who painted on his days off, and the critics of his day mostly treated him as a joke. From what I've read he tried to sell this one to the mayor of his home town, who wasn't interested, and it then dropped out of sight for years before a dealer turned it up again in the 1920s.
Erisava: It's beautiful but so still. Everything looks cut out of cardboard and stood up on the sand