“Henri Rousseau wants to be an artist. Not a single person has ever told him he is talented. He’s a toll collector. He’s forty years old. But he buys some canvas, paint, and brushes, and starts ...

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As explained in the exhibition Directed by Rembrandt, currently on view at the Rembrandthuis Museum in Amsterdam, the 17th-century Dutch painter could spend up to two days binding a turban worn by one ...

The year is 1890 and Henri Rousseau, palette in hand, is standing to attention for the occasion of his self-portrait, an arrestingly large picture entitled Myself, Portrait-Landscape. Wearing his ...

"Surprised!," painted in 1891: A bug-eyed tiger caught off guard by a tropical storm, which lashes the most gorgeously exotic jungle. No other painting does as good a job conveying the "fearful ...

In the jungle, the mighty painted jungle by famed French artist Henri Rousseau, neither man nor beast sleeps day or night. A self-taught artist, Rousseau’s developed a unique artistic style that often ...

The self-taught painter Henri Rousseau was mocked for his clumsy compositions and awkward perspectives. But if he had been trained, modern art as we know it might never have happened, writes Alastair ...

Henri Rousseau, La charmeuse de serpents, 1907, oil on canvas, 167 x 189.5 cm. Paris, Musée d’Orsay. © RMN-Grand Palais (musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski ...