Henri Rousseau, "The Sleeping Gypsy" (1897), oil on canvas; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, gift of Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, 1939 (digital Image © The Museum of ...

"Henri Rousseau: A Painter's Secrets," at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, brings together the artist's work from museums across the country and around the world. Here are some of the works ...

Henri Rousseau, known as Le Douanier Rousseau (the customs officer), was born in Laval (western France) in 1844 and died in Paris in 1910, and has enjoyed widespread fame for over a century. His ...

One of the most famous stories regarding Henri Rousseau goes something like this: Picasso, after finding Rousseau’s large-scale Portrait of a Woman (1895) for sale as canvas reuse, hosted a roaring ...

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 ...

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THE thing about Henri Rousseau is that he never seems to fit. What to make of a self-taught artist who worked as a clerk in a customs office, took up painting in middle age and conceived of himself as ...

L’exposition du musée parisien porteun regard neuf sur l’œuvre d’Henri Rousseau, son audace et son inventivité.

Henri Rousseau gave up his day job as a low-ranking collector of tax on wine unloaded from boats on the Seine, in Paris, in 1893, when he was 49. He wanted to devote himself full-time to his passion ...