Henri Rousseau

1844–1910 · Post-Impressionism

Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier, 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.

39 paintings

• Sawmill, Outskirts of Paris (c. 1893/95)
• Outskirts of Paris (c. 1897–1905)
• The Sleeping Gypsy (1897)
• Quai d'Ivry (1907)
• Meadowland (The Pasture) (1910)
• The Waterfall (1910)
• The Wedding Party (1905)
• The Family (1890)
• Outskirts of Paris (Environs de Paris) (1895)
• The Laundry Boat of Pont de Charenton (Le Bateau-lavoir du Pont de Charenton) (1895)
• The Past and the Present, (1899)
• Portrait of a Woman in a Landscape (Portrait de femme dans un paysage) (1893)
• Monkeys and Parrot in the Virgin Forest (1905)
• Unpleasant Surprise (Mauvaise surprise) (1901)
• Woman Walking in an Exotic Forest (1905)
• Woman with Basket of Eggs (1900)
• View of Montsouris Park, the Kiosk (1908)
• The Rabbit's Meal (1908)
• Bouquet of Flowers (1910)
• Bouquet of Flowers with China Asters and Tokyos (1910)
• Myself: Portrait – Landscape (1890)
• The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope (1905)
• Flowers in a Vase (1909)
• Stroller and Child (1905)
• Tropical Landscape: American Indian Struggling with a Gorilla (1910)
• Schlacht von Champigny - Kriegsepisode 1870 (1882)
• A Centennial of Independence (1892)
• In a Tropical Forest. Struggle between Tiger and Bull (1908)
• Luxembourg Gardens. Monument to Chopin (1909)
• View of the Fortifications to the left of the Gate of Vanves (1909)
• Lake of Geneva (Lac Leman)
• Tiger in a Tropical Storm (1891)
• Boy on the Rocks (1895/1897)
• Rendezvous in the Forest (1889)
• Tropical Forest with Monkeys (1910)
• La encantadora de serpientes (1907)
• The Merry Jesters (1906)
• Carnival Evening (1886)
• View of the Bridge of Sevres by Henri Rousseau (1908)