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Henri Rousseau
The Monkeys
1906
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Henri Rousseau
Boy on the Rocks
1895-97
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
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Henri Rousseau
The Sleeping Gypsy
1897
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Henri Rousseau
In a Tropical Forest: Fight Between a Tiger and a Bull
c 1908
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
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Henri Rousseau
War(Cavalcade of Discord)
1894(Salon des Independants,1894)
3' 9'' x 6' 4 3/4''(114 x 195 cm)
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Henri Rousseau
The Snake Charmer
1907
5' 6 1/2'' x 6' 2 1/2''(169 x 189.5 cm)Bequest of Jacques Doucet,1936
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Henri Rousseau
Portrait of a Woman
ca 1897
6'6'' x 3' 9''(198 x 114 cm)
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Henri Rousseau
War (mk09)
1894
Oil on canvas,114 x 195 cm
Paris,Musee d'Orsay
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Henri Rousseau
Self-Portrait
mk52
1890
Oil on canvas
143x110cm
National Gallery,Prague
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Henri Rousseau
The Promenade
mk15
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Henri Rousseau
A Carnival Evening
mk15
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Henri Rousseau
Henri Rousseau as Orchestra Conductor
mk15
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Henri Rousseau
Happy Quartet
mk15
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Henri Rousseau
The Rendezvous in the Forest
mk15
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Henri Rousseau
A Country Wedding
mk15
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Henri Rousseau
The Environs of Batignolles
Painting on cardboard mk15
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Henri Rousseau
The Artist Painting His Wife
mk15
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Henri Rousseau
Portrait of the Artist with a Lamp
mk15
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Henri Rousseau
Portrait of Rousseau's Second Wife with a Lamp
mk15
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Henri Rousseau
View of the Fortifications
mk15
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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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