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…
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…
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…
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.…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Le repas du lion (The Repast of the Lion) c.1907 Oil on canvas, 113.7 x 160 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work was probably shown in the Salon d’Automne of 1907, but it treats a theme…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Forêt de Fontainebleau (Fontainebleau Forest) 1865 Oil on canvas 60 x 73.2 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Forêt de Fontainebleau (France)
Forest of Fontainebleau in Art: Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Forêt de Fontainebleau 1865 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Cellini, Benvenuto (1500-1571) La nymphe de Fontainebleau 1542–1543 Musée du Louvre, Paris Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Vue dans la forêt de Fontainebleau 1855 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam …