Ridiculed during his life, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. Henri Rousseau was ... seriously in his early forties, and by age 49 he ...

Henri Rousseau has been puzzling art lovers since ... Born in the provincial town of Lavan in 1844, Rousseau had a tough early life. The son of a plumber, he saw his family home lost to his ...

The self-taught painter Henri Rousseau was mocked for ... Towards the end of his life, around the turn of the 20th Century, Rousseau was taken up and championed by artists at the vanguard.

Artist Henri Rousseau painted The Dream in ... A Polish variant of Hedwig, she's possibly named after an early love interest of Rousseau's. But she's rather unlike the fleshy naturalistic bodies ...

A closer look at Henri Rousseau’s ‘The Merry Jesters’ reveals a complex artwork by a complicated man Henri Rousseau was a customs official who worked at a toll gate and only took up painting ...

A documentary film on the life of French Post-Impressionist Henri Rousseau (1844 - 1910) as told through animated recreations of his signature primitivist paintings, high-definition artwork ...

The divide between critics and his fellow artists over his work continued the rest of Rousseau's life. But as his fan club picked up such noteworthy members as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse ...

A statue comes to life in a magical gallery and falls into the painting 'Surprised!' by Henri Rousseau. Inside the painting she explores Rousseau’s use of imagination in painting, the techniques ...