Artist: Henri Rousseau (1844 - 1910)
Nationality: French
Movement: Post-Impressionism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Henri Rousseau spent his life in the working class a toll collector, a clerk, and a soldier. In 1893, he retired on pension and began painting to occupy his time. Although he was self-taught, his work retained a sophisticated sense of color and unique composition. In the 1880’s, Rousseau began to exhibit his paintings but was never completely taken seriously by his critics and colleagues. After his death, his work influenced the progress of the Surrealist movement.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Henri Rousseau (le Douanier), War, or The Horseman of Discord, 1895
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Banks of the Bièvre near Bicêtre Henri-Julien-Félix Rousseau (le Douanier) (French, 1844-1910)Oil on canvas;
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Repast of the Lion, ca. 1907 Henri-Julien-Félix Rousseau (le Douanier) (French, 1844-1910)Oil on canvas;
J. Paul Getty Museum -
A Centennial of Independence
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Theodore Rousseau
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Henri Rousseau - The Dream 1910 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art French
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Henri Rousseau - The Waterfall 1910 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago French
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Henri Rousseau - Boy on the Rocks 1895-1897 oil on linen National Gallery of Art French
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Jean Francois Janinet, Aux Manes de J.J. Rousseau. Rousseau la releva, la consola et la secourut, 18th - 19th century
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Henri Rousseau - Outskirts of Paris c. 1897-1905 oil on fabric Cleveland Museum of Art French
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Henri Rousseau - The Equatorial Jungle 1909 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Henri Rousseau - Rendezvous in the Forest 1889 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Henri Rousseau - The Sleeping Gypsy 1897 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art French
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Edwin Hale Lincoln - Whalers Rousseau and Desdemona 1889 platinum print Peabody Essex Museum American
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James Ensor - The Garden of the Rousseau Family 1885 oil on fabric Cleveland Museum of Art Belgian
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Henri Rousseau - Rue en banlieue (Street in the Suburbs) c. 1896 oil on canvas Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at The University of Oklahoma French
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Henri Rousseau - Tropical Forest with Monkeys 1910 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Henri Rousseau - Fight between a Tiger and a Buffalo 1908 oil on fabric Cleveland Museum of Art French
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
A Path among the Rocks, probably 1861 Pierre-Étienne-Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812-1867)Oil on wood; 15 x
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
ThÈodore Rousseau, The Forest (La Foret), 1842
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
A Meadow Bordered by Trees, ca. 1845 Pierre-Étienne-Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812-1867)Oil on wood; 16 3/8
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
ThÈodore Rousseau, Chenes de Roche, 1861
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, 1845-67 Pierre-Étienne-Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812-1867)Oil on canvas; 64 x
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
ThÈodore Rousseau, Landscape, 19th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
A River in a Meadow Pierre-Étienne-Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812-1867)Oil on wood; 16 3/4 x 26
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
A River Landscape Pierre-Étienne-Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812-1867)Oil on wood; 16 3/8 x 24 7/8 in.
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
ThÈodore Rousseau, Woodland Landscape, 19th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Jacques Rousseau, La Mort De Cesar, 17th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
ThÈodore Rousseau, Le Cerisier de la Plante a biau, 19th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
ThÈodore Rousseau, La Plaine de la Plante a Biau, 19th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Sunset near Arbonne, ca. 1860-65 Pierre-Étienne-Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812-1867)Oil on wood; 25 1/4 x 39
Museum of Fine Arts -
Imitator of Henri Julian Félix Rousseau, French, 1844-1910 Lake of Geneva (Lac Leman) Oil on
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Still Life with Ham, 1870s Philippe Rousseau (French, 1816-1887)Oil on canvas; 28 3/4 x 36
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Jacques Rousseau, Landscape with two reclining figures, 17th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
ThÈodore Rousseau, Landscape (boat in foreground), 19th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Georg Friedrich Meyer, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 18th century
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Henri Rousseau - Tropical Landscape- An American Indian Struggling with a Gorilla 1910 oil on canvas Virginia Museum of Fine Arts French
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Achille-Isidore Gilbert, Philippe Rousseau, 19th century
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I Hill, Mont morancy - The Residence of Rousseau, 19th century
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Charles Germain Saint-Aubin, Portrait of J. B. Rousseau, 18th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (12)
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Bishop's University Art Gallery: Collector's Items and the Connoisseur's Gaze
This collection is a microcosm which is difficult to divide, however the curators have decided to highlight eight artists of significance whom Riverin referred to as "key figure". Through its staging, this exhibition presents the works of ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Romanticism and the School of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Paintings from the Karen B. Cohen Collection
The Cohen collection represents several artists in depth; thus, the exhibition features a varied range of work by such masters as Couture, Gericault, Daubigny, ...
National Museum of Western Art: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay 1999 — The Dreams and Realities of the 19th Century
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University Museum, University of Stellenbosch: Christo Coetzee 70
The exhibition comprises the eight sequential phases of his oeuvre and presents an extensive variety of subjects, ideas, media and materials. Although most of the works exhibited here form part of the US collection, a number of additional works - ...
National Palace Museum: Birth of a New Century: Images of Children in Western Art
Beginning with the Enlightenment in the late eighteenth century, the nature of children was starting to take shape as distinct from that of adults. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one advocate of educational reform. ...
Kimbell Art Museum: From Renoir to Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie
Everywhere from Tokyo to Moscow to Washington, D.C., individual collectors set in motion plans for independent institutions, committed to modern and non-Western ...
CONCORDE PRO Evénements: The 22th Antique Show in St-Tropez
Among them we can quote: In silverware Joelle LASRY, will present a service composed by 7 pieces in silver massive, French work of XIXe century, carrying the punch of Master AUCOC. This unit is composed of a samovar, a teapot, chocolate, a milk ...
Kimbell Art Museum: From Renoir to Picasso Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie
Among the highlights of the exhibition are 16 turn-of-the-century paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and 14 by Renoirs dear friend Paul Cézanne. The three most important painters to emerge in France in the first decade of the 20th century are r...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Monet, Renoir, and the Impressionist Landscape
The exhibition opens with an early landscape by Claude Monet, Rue de la Bavolle, Honfleur, placed within the context of the Realist landscape style ...
Van Gogh Museum: Reflections: Japan and Japonism

Come now, isn’t it almost a true religion which these simple Japanese teach us, who live in nature as though they themselves were flowers. And you cannot study Japanese art, it seems to me, without becoming much gayer and happier, and we must r...
Phillips Collection: Degas to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts September 23 through January 21, 2001 FUTURE . . . Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective Fe
By integrating works from The Phillips Collection into the Tannahill exhibition, Degas to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks from The Detroit Institute of Arts highlights the similarities and the differ...
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: Drawn to Art: Art Education and the American Experience, 1800-1950
Among the 79 objects on display in the West Hall of the Library are vintage paint boxes, Victorian-era coloring books, stencil kits, slates, tracing books, drawing manuals, crayons and colored pencils, books on educational theory, and a Chautau...

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WebMuseum: Rousseau, Henri
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Mark Hardens Artchive - Henri Rousseau
School Arts - The Imaginary World of Henri Rousseau
Henri Rousseau Biography
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Henri Rousseau (Getty Museum)
Renoir to Picasso - Henri Rousseau
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