Sort By:
Tiger in a Tropical Storm
27" x 22" Fine Art Print
+ Multiple Sizes
Price: $210.99
The Monument to Chopin in the Luxembourg Gardens, 1909
26" x 22" Fine Art Print
+ Multiple Sizes
Price: $203.99
The Artist Painting his Wife
30" x 27" Fine Art Print
+ Multiple Sizes
Price: $244.99
The Edge of the Forest at Fontainebleau
28" x 22" Fine Art Print
+ Multiple Sizes
Price: $212.99
The Walk in the Forest
24" x 27" Fine Art Print
+ Multiple Sizes
Price: $213.99
Landscape with a Fisherman
28" x 20" Fine Art Print
+ Multiple Sizes
Price: $204.99
Holm Oaks, Apremont
28" x 20" Fine Art Print
+ Multiple Sizes
Price: $204.99
Cliffs, c.1897
28" x 17" Fine Art Print
+ Multiple Sizes
Price: $181.99
Wooded Landscape with a Faggot Gatherer
26" x 22" Fine Art Print
+ Multiple Sizes
Price: $206.99
View of the Bridge at Sevres and the Hills at Clamart
26" x 22" Fine Art Print
+ Multiple Sizes
Price: $205.99
The Pool with a Stormy Sky
28" x 22" Fine Art Print
+ Multiple Sizes
Price: $213.99
Quay at Ivry
30" x 27" Fine Art Print
+ Multiple Sizes
Price: $243.99
Portrait of Pierre Loti
22" x 26" Fine Art Print
+ Multiple Sizes
Price: $205.99
Sort By:
Henri Rousseau is best known for his lush jungle scenes, often painted with figures relaxing in peaceful poses. He was a self taught artist who began painting in 1880 after a twenty-year career as a customs officer. While attempting to seek recognition for his work, he was rejected by the Salon in 1885, but was accepted the following year by the jury-free Societe des Artistes Independants.
Rousseau's art has generally been considered avant-garde, although there is evidence of the Neo-Classicist influence in his precise definition of forms and the smooth finish to his paintings. Knowing little about linear or atmospheric perspective, he laid the elements in his scenes across the picture surface, suggesting space by a succession of planes stacked one on top of the other up the canvas, so that forms on the horizon were as crisply defined as those nearby.
His paintings were very tautly organized in two-dimensional terms, and his simplification and stylized renderings struck a chord with vanguard painters who rejected naturalistic depictions, first with Gauguin and his circle, and later with Picasso and his friends. Today his widely appealing work can be seen in major museum collections around the world.