Henri Rousseau - Paintings, Death & Facts - Biography

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Henri Rousseau | French painter | Britannica

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He is known for his richly coloured and meticulously detailed pictures of lush jungles, wild beasts, and exotic figures. After exhibiting …

Henri Rousseau - National Gallery of Art

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Rousseau was a frequent visitor to the botanical gardens, zoo, and natural history museum that made up of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. The flora and fauna on display there inspired much of the lush …

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Henri Rousseau and His Surreal Jungle-Inspired …

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Rousseau's Most Famous Jungle Works “Tropical Forest with Monkeys” (1910) (Photo: Wikimedia Commons [Public Domain]) Rousseau’s jungle paintings transport viewers into another world—one …

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Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was a customs officer and tax collector for most of his adult life. He started collecting tolls in 1871 in his twenties and only started fully focusing on his art at the age of 49.

Henri Rousseau: Facts and Information - Primary Facts

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Rousseau became a full-time artist at the age of 49. He was an accomplished violin player, and he often supplemented his income by playing as a street musician. Although some of Rousseau’s most well …

12 of the Most Famous Paintings by Henri Rousseau

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Rousseau based the exotic vegetation of his multiple jungle oil on canvas paintings on studies that he made in Paris’s botanical gardens and added the wild cats from popular …

The Sleeping Gypsy - Wikipedia

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Rousseau first exhibited the painting at the 13th Salon des Indépendants, and tried unsuccessfully to sell it to the mayor of his hometown, Laval. Instead, it entered the …

The Dinners That Shaped History - The New York Times

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Before he received acclaim for his post-Impressionist jungle scenes, Rousseau, then 64, was known as a shy bureaucrat who had retired from his job as a toll taker to devote himself to painting...