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) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) 1895 Pen and brown ink on brown wove paper, 13.6 x 10 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
(1859–1915) Virginie Amélie “Mimi” Avegno Gautreau Madame Pierre Gautreau, née Avegno Madame Gautreau in Art: Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Madame Gautreau Drinking a Toast 1882–1883 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Madame X 1883–1884 Metropolitan…
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) La Guerre (The War) after 1895 Photomechanical relief print on red coated wove paper, 32.5 × 49.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
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) L’enfant aux rochers (Boy on the Rocks) 1895–1897 Oil on linen, 55.4 x 45.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Fleurs dans un vase (Flowers in a Vase) 1909 Oil on canvas, 45.4 x 32.7 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo For Henri Rousseau, the theme of the still life, especially flowers, offered a pleasant diversion from more ambitious,…
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…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Berges de la Bièvre près de Bicêtre (Banks of the Bièvre near Bicêtre) c.1908–1909 Oil on canvas, 54.6 x 45.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rousseau identified the subject of this painting in a handwritten note, affixed…