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The girl with a doll
21" x 28" Fine Art Print
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The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897
24" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Self Portrait
21" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $56.99
War
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Representatives of the Forces greeting the Republic as a Sign of Peace, 1907
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Quay at Ivry
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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The Walk in the Forest
21" x 28" Fine Art Print
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The wedding party
21" x 28" Fine Art Print
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The Repast of the Lion
28" x 20" Fine Art Print
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The Dream
24" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Exotic Landscape, 1910
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Forest Glade near a Village, 1833
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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The Snake Charmer, 1907
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Cliffs, c.1897
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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The Muse Inspiring the Poet
21" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Tropical Forest: Battling Tiger and Buffalo, 1908
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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In the Wood at Fontainebleau
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Portrait of a Woman, 1895
21" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Landscape with a Fisherman
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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The Hungry Lion
24" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Portrait of a Woman
21" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Jaguar Attacking a Horse, 1910
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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The Pool with a Stormy Sky
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Self portrait - close
21" x 28" Fine Art Print
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The Muse Inspiring the Poet - detail
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Portrait of Pierre Loti
21" x 28" Fine Art Print
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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.