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La Seine à Meudon (1897-1905)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La Seine à Meudon (Outskirts of Paris) 1897–1905 Oil on fabric, 37.8 x 45.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Rousseau once said to Picasso: “We are the two greatest artists of this era, you in the Egyptian style,…

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 Art Museum, 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 Art Museum, Philadelphia An air of mystery pervades this wintry forest landscape. Dressed in festive carnival costumes, a lone couple stands in front…

Philadelphia Art Museum

Established: 1876 Opened: 1877 Address: 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19130, United States Website: https://www.visitpham.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…

Philadelphia, PA (USA)

Museums: • Barnes Foundation: 2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19130 • Philadelphia Art Museum: 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19130 Districts: • Germantown Births: • Alcott, Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) • Barnes, Albert C. (1872-1951) • Danner, Blythe (1943) • Fell, Norman…

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

Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau

(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…

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…