Thursday, April 3, 2025

Henri Rousseau
(1844 - 1910)
 
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties; by age 49, he retired from his job to work on his art full-time.
Ridiculed during his lifetime by critics, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. Rousseau's work exerted an extensive influence on several generations of avant-garde artists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Rousseau


The Sleeping Gypsy
1897
Oil on canvas
129.5 × 200.7 cm
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/80172

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