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Henri Rousseau
ormtjuserskan
1907
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Henri Rousseau
Le Canal
"Le Canal," oil on canvas, by the French artist Henri Rousseau. 12 7/8 in. x 16 1/8 x 7/8 in. Yale University Art Gallery, Katharine Ordway Collection. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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Henri Rousseau
Surprise
Date 1891(1891)
Medium English: oil on canvas
Dimensions 130 x 162 cm (51.2 x 63.8 in)
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Henri Rousseau
The Customs Post
c. 1890; oil on canvas
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Henri Rousseau
Landscape with Milkmaids
Oil on Canvas. 1906
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Henri Rousseau
Luxembourg Gardens. Monument to Chopin
Date 1909(1909)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 38 x 47 cm
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Henri Rousseau
The Repast of the Lion
ca. 1907
Oil on canvas; 44 3/4 x 63 in. (113.7 x 160 cm)
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Henri Rousseau
View of the Quai d'Ivry
Date 1907(1907)
Medium Oil on canvas
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Henri Rousseau
The Customs Post
1890; oil on canvas; The Samuel Courtauld Trust
Date c1890
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Henri Rousseau
Am Waldrand
c. 1886(1886)
Medium oil
Dimensions 70 x 60.5 cm
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Henri Rousseau
View of the Pont Sevres and the Hills of Clamart, Saint-Cloud, and Bellevue with Biplane, Ballon and Dirigible By Henri Rousseau
1908(1908)
Medium : Oil on Canvas
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Henri Rousseau
View of Montsouris Park By Henri Rousseau
1890(1890)
Medium : Oil on Canvas
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Henri Rousseau
Struggle between Tiger and Bull
oil on canvas
Dimensions 46 x 55 cm (18.1 x 21.7 in)
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Henri Rousseau
Seine and Eiffel-tower in the sunset
1910(1910)
Medium English: Öl auf Leinwand
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Henri Rousseau
Struggle between Tiger and Bull
. between 1908(1908) and 1909(1909)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 46 X 55 cm (18.1 X 21.7 in)
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Henri Rousseau
Portrait of Monsieur X (Pierre Loti)
Date 1910(1910)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 61 x 50 cm (24 x 19.7 in)
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Henri Rousseau
Brucke in Sevres
1908(1908)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 81 x 100 cm
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Henri Rousseau
The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope
Exhibited in 1905
Type Oil on canvas
Dimensions 200 cm x 301 cm
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Henri Rousseau
Surprise
oil on canvas
Dimensions 130 X 162 cm (51.2 X 63.8 in)
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Henri Rousseau
The Merry Jesters
1906(1906)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 145.7 X 113.3 cm
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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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