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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:: 86677
Luxembourg Gardens. Monument to Chopin
Date 1909(1909)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 38 x 47 cm
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Painting ID:: 87653
The Repast of the Lion
ca. 1907
Oil on canvas; 44 3/4 x 63 in. (113.7 x 160 cm)
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Painting ID:: 87774
View of the Quai d'Ivry
Date 1907(1907)
Medium Oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 88198
The Customs Post
1890; oil on canvas; The Samuel Courtauld Trust
Date c1890
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Painting ID:: 89729
Am Waldrand
c. 1886(1886)
Medium oil
Dimensions 70 x 60.5 cm
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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: | Nicolas Regnier | Hans Cranach | Edward Haytley | Anthonie Palamedesz | Phoebus Levin |
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