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Henri Rousseau
Poet's Flowers
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Henri Rousseau
Bouquet of Wild Flowers
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Henri Rousseau
The Forget-Me-Nots
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Henri Rousseau
Still Life with Exotic Fruits
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Henri Rousseau
The Port of Algiers
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Henri Rousseau
The Tiger Hunt
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Henri Rousseau
Algiers(General view) Engraving
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Henri Rousseau
Head of Virginia Deer
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Henri Rousseau
Negro Attacked by a jaguar
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Henri Rousseau
Banks of the Marne(Charenton) The Alfort Mill
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Henri Rousseau
The Cliff
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Henri Rousseau
The D'Entrecasteaux in a Tempest
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Henri Rousseau
Landscape with Farm and Cow
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Henri Rousseau
The Haystacks
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Henri Rousseau
The Avenue,Park of Saint-Cloud
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Henri Rousseau
Landscape in Buttes-Chaumont
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Henri Rousseau
The Pink Candle
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Henri Rousseau
Joyous Jokesters
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Henri Rousseau
Wader
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Henri Rousseau
Monkeys in the Virgin Forest
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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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