Tag: Art

Combat de tigre et buffle (1908)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Combat de tigre et de buffle (Fight between a Tiger and a Buffalo) 1908 Oil on fabric, 170 x 189.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Having never ventured outside France, Rousseau derived his jungle scenes from reading travel…

Joyeux farceurs (1906)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Joyeux farceurs (The Merry Jesters) 1906 Oil on canvas, 145.7 x 113.3 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

Une soirée au carnaval (1886)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Une soirée au carnaval (Carnival Evening) 1886 Oil on canvas, 117.3 x 89.5 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia An air of mystery pervades this wintry forest landscape. Dressed in festive carnival costumes, a lone couple stands in…

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Established: 1876 Opened: 1877 Address: 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19130, United States Website: https://www.philamuseum.org/ Collection: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W…

Forêt tropicale avec singes (1910)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Forêt tropicale avec singes (Tropical Forest with Monkeys) 1910 Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 162.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Born in 1844 to a working-class family in Laval, France, Henri Rousseau worked briefly for a lawyer and…

Autoportrait (1895)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) 1895 Pen and brown ink on brown wove paper, 13.6 x 10 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington

Rendez-vous dans la forêt (1889)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Rendez-vous dans la forêt (Rendezvous in the Forest) 1889 Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Beyond a dense screen of stylized, dark brown tree trunks, bending branches, and sage and moss-green leaves, a…

La Guerre (after 1895)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La Guerre (The War) after 1895 Photomechanical relief print on red coated wove paper, 32.5 × 49.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington

Paysage exotique (1909)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Paysage exotique (The Equatorial Jungle) 1909 Oil on canvas, 140.6 x 129.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Two animals with golden yellow, brown, and black fur peer out from behind dense jungle foliage in this stylized, vertical painting.…