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Henri Rousseau
The Lion's Meal
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Henri Rousseau
The Waterfall
1910
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Henri Rousseau
Exotic Landscape
1910
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Henri Rousseau
Exotic Landscape
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Henri Rousseau
Beauty and the Beast
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Henri Rousseau
The French Republic
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Henri Rousseau
Onew Centennial of Independence The People Dance Around Two Republics,That of 1792 and That of 1892,Holding Hands and Singing:'Aupres de ma blonde,qu
1892
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Henri Rousseau
Liberty Inviting Artists to Take Part in the Twenty-second Exhibition of Independent Artists
The Valtons,Signacs,Carreres,Willettes,Luces,Seurats,Ortizes,Pissarros,Jaudins,Henri Rousseaus,etc,etc,are your emulators (mk15)
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Henri Rousseau
The Representatives of Foreign Powers Coming to Salute the Republic as a sign of Peace
1907
"Union of Nations.Peace work.Liberty.Fraternity".
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Henri Rousseau
Eve
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Henri Rousseau
The Snake Charmer
1907
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Henri Rousseau
The Sleeping Gypsy
1897
The feline,although ferocious,is reluctant to pounce on its victim,who worn out,has fallen into a deep sleep (mk15)
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Henri Rousseau
The Dream
1910
Yadurgha in a lovely dream,Having gently fallen asleep hearing the sounds of a musette Of a well-meaning charmer,While the moon reflects,Onthe flowers,the greening trees The wild serpents lend an ear Tothe gay tunes of the instrument (mk15)
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Henri Rousseau
Detail from The Dream
Yadurgha (mk15)
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Henri Rousseau
War It Passes,Terrifying,Leaving Despair,Tears,and Ruin Everywhere
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Henri Rousseau
detail from War
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Henri Rousseau
The Artillerists(Fourth Battery,Third Piece)
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Henri Rousseau
The Battle of Champigny
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Henri Rousseau
The Mexican Picador
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Henri Rousseau
Bouquet of Flowers
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French
1844-1910
Henri Rousseau Locations
He was born in Laval in the Loire Valley into the family of a plumber. He attended Laval High School as a day student and then as a boarder, after his father became a debtor and his parents had to leave the town upon the seizure of their house. He was mediocre in some subjects at the high school but won prizes for drawing and music. He worked for a lawyer and studied law, but "attempted a small perjury and sought refuge in the army," serving for four years, starting in 1863. With his father's death, Rousseau moved to Paris in 1868 to support his widowed mother as a government employee. In 1871, he was promoted to the toll collector's office in Paris as a tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties, and by age 49 he retired from his job to work on his art. His wife died in 1888 and he later remarried.
Rousseau claimed he had "no teacher other than nature", although he admitted he had received "some advice" from two established Academic painters, Felix Auguste-Clement and Jean-Leon Gerome. Essentially he was self-taught and is considered to be a naive or primitive painter.
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