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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Henri Rousseau Landscape with a Dirigible oil painting


Landscape with a Dirigible
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Painting ID::  27166
Henri Rousseau
Landscape with a Dirigible
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Henri Rousseau View of the Bridge at Sevres and Saint-Cloud with Airplane,Balloon,and Dirigible oil painting


View of the Bridge at Sevres and Saint-Cloud with Airplane,Balloon,and Dirigible
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Painting ID::  27168
Henri Rousseau
View of the Bridge at Sevres and Saint-Cloud with Airplane,Balloon,and Dirigible
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Henri Rousseau View of Point-du-Jour.Sunset oil painting


View of Point-du-Jour.Sunset
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Painting ID::  27169
Henri Rousseau
View of Point-du-Jour.Sunset
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Henri Rousseau View of the Footbridge of Passy oil painting


View of the Footbridge of Passy
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Painting ID::  27172
Henri Rousseau
View of the Footbridge of Passy
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Henri Rousseau View of Ile Saint-Louis from the Port of Saint Nicolas(Evening) oil painting


View of Ile Saint-Louis from the Port of Saint Nicolas(Evening)
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Painting ID::  27174
Henri Rousseau
View of Ile Saint-Louis from the Port of Saint Nicolas(Evening)
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     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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