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Henri Rousseau The Dream oil painting


The Dream
Painting ID::  30898
Henri Rousseau
The Dream
mk68 Oil on canvas New York Museum of Modern Art 1910 France

   
   
     

Henri Rousseau War oil painting


War
Painting ID::  33987
Henri Rousseau
War
mk87 1894 Oil on canvas 114x195cm Paris,Musee d'Orsay

   
   
     

Henri Rousseau In a Tropical Forest.Struggle between Tiger and Bull oil painting


In a Tropical Forest.Struggle between Tiger and Bull
Painting ID::  34305
Henri Rousseau
In a Tropical Forest.Struggle between Tiger and Bull
mk91 Oil on canvas 46x55

   
   
     

Henri Rousseau The Sleeping Gypsy oil painting


The Sleeping Gypsy
Painting ID::  40849
Henri Rousseau
The Sleeping Gypsy
mk156 1897 Oil on canvas 129.5x200.7cm

   
   
     

Henri Rousseau The Muse Inspiring the Poet oil painting


The Muse Inspiring the Poet
Painting ID::  40873
Henri Rousseau
The Muse Inspiring the Poet
mk156 1909 Oil on canvas 131x97cm

   
   
     

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     Henri Rousseau
     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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