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Henri Rousseau
French
1844-1910
Henri Rousseau Locations
He was born in Laval in the Loire Valley into the family of a plumber. He attended Laval High School as a day student and then as a boarder, after his father became a debtor and his parents had to leave the town upon the seizure of their house. He was mediocre in some subjects at the high school but won prizes for drawing and music. He worked for a lawyer and studied law, but "attempted a small perjury and sought refuge in the army," serving for four years, starting in 1863. With his father's death, Rousseau moved to Paris in 1868 to support his widowed mother as a government employee. In 1871, he was promoted to the toll collector's office in Paris as a tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties, and by age 49 he retired from his job to work on his art. His wife died in 1888 and he later remarried.
Rousseau claimed he had "no teacher other than nature", although he admitted he had received "some advice" from two established Academic painters, Felix Auguste-Clement and Jean-Leon Gerome. Essentially he was self-taught and is considered to be a naive or primitive painter.
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Painting ID:: 27195
The French Republic
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Painting ID:: 27196
Onew Centennial of Independence The People Dance Around Two Republics,That of 1792 and That of 1892,Holding Hands and Singing:'Aupres de ma blonde,qu
1892
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Painting ID:: 27197
Liberty Inviting Artists to Take Part in the Twenty-second Exhibition of Independent Artists
The Valtons,Signacs,Carreres,Willettes,Luces,Seurats,Ortizes,Pissarros,Jaudins,Henri Rousseaus,etc,etc,are your emulators (mk15)
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Painting ID:: 27199
The Representatives of Foreign Powers Coming to Salute the Republic as a sign of Peace
1907
"Union of Nations.Peace work.Liberty.Fraternity".
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Painting ID:: 27200
Eve
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Henri Rousseau
French
1844-1910
Henri Rousseau Locations
He was born in Laval in the Loire Valley into the family of a plumber. He attended Laval High School as a day student and then as a boarder, after his father became a debtor and his parents had to leave the town upon the seizure of their house. He was mediocre in some subjects at the high school but won prizes for drawing and music. He worked for a lawyer and studied law, but "attempted a small perjury and sought refuge in the army," serving for four years, starting in 1863. With his father's death, Rousseau moved to Paris in 1868 to support his widowed mother as a government employee. In 1871, he was promoted to the toll collector's office in Paris as a tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties, and by age 49 he retired from his job to work on his art. His wife died in 1888 and he later remarried.
Rousseau claimed he had "no teacher other than nature", although he admitted he had received "some advice" from two established Academic painters, Felix Auguste-Clement and Jean-Leon Gerome. Essentially he was self-taught and is considered to be a naive or primitive painter.
. Related Artists to Henri Rousseau: | Michelangelo Buonarroti | Charles-Amable Lenoir | Steven van der Meulen | Hans Multscher | Hugo Loffler |
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