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The Dream
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: Henri Rousseau
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A hand-painted reproduction of The Dream by Rousseau, the jungle fantasy of a reclining nude among dense moonlit foliage and a hidden flute player, rebuilt leaf by leaf in oil.
Description
Description
Dozens of greens, laid down leaf by leaf, build the jungle before any figure or animal comes into focus. Rousseau worked with flat, unmodulated colour and hard, deliberate edges, so each frond and blossom holds its own shape rather than dissolving into atmosphere, and a cold moonlight settles over the whole scene without casting the shadows a real forest would throw. This Dream reproduction by Rousseau follows that same logic of the brush, building the foliage plane by plane rather than blending it into a soft haze.
About The Dream Rousseau Reproduction
Out of that thicket a nude woman reclines on a Victorian sofa, an object with no business in a jungle, her arm extended toward the lush tangle around her as though she were conducting it. Lions and a pair of eyes peer from between the leaves, a snake curls near the elephant hidden in the undergrowth, and a flute player stands almost invisible among the stems, the one figure who seems to belong to the place. Rousseau finished the canvas in 1910, the year he died, and it is the largest of the jungle paintings he had been developing since the 1890s. He never left France. The exotic plants came from the botanical gardens and the Paris zoo, catalogued in his mind and recombined here at a scale no real jungle would allow.
ByMuseum recreates this composition as a hand-painted oil painting reproduction, not a printed replica painting on canvas. A trained artist works from high-resolution references of the original, rebuilding the layered greens stroke by stroke and matching the flatness of Rousseau, the cold moonlit palette, and the raised texture where oil sits thick on the leaves and sofa. The canvas carries the weight of hand-applied pigment, with brushwork you can see and feel rather than a surface printed flat.
The hand-painted reproduction
Hung at scale, close to the original 204.5 by 298.5 centimetre proportions, the jungle keeps giving up details that a smaller image flattens: a second pair of eyes low in the leaves, a bird half hidden above the sofa, the exact green where one leaf overlaps another. Living with it, the piece rewards slow looking rather than a single glance.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, not a print
- Available in multiple sizes, scaled to the original proportions
- Gallery-ready presentation for hanging on arrival
- Certificate of authenticity included
- 90 day returns, full refund or free replacement, no restocking fee
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