Europe1: «Henri Rousseau, l'ambition de la peinture», une exposition du peintre à l'imaginaire fantasque à voir au musée de l'Orangerie
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Henri Rousseau
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier, a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties; by age 49, he retired from his job to work on his art full-time.
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culture · French painter (1844–1910) · painter · printmaker · artist · also Henri Rousseau, Henri-Julien-Félix Rousseau, le Douanier Rousseau, Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, Le Douanier, Rousseau Douanier
Born 21 May 1844 · Died 2 September 1910 · Q156386
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2026· 3 entries
L'Humanité: Henri Rousseau s’expose au musée de l’Orangerie à Paris : en finir avec le douanier naïf
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Observer: Henri Rousseau, the Performative Naïf Who Outsmarted Modernity
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2025· 4 entries
Artnet: Henri Rousseau Deserves More Than Our Condescension
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Artnet: Untangling the Myths Behind Henri Rousseau’s Eccentric Masterpiece
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Observer: One Fine Show: “Henri Rousseau, A Painter’s Secrets” at the Barnes Foundation
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THE WEEK: Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets
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2016· 2 entries
Hyperallergic: In the Jungle of Henri Rousseau's Imagination
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MutualArt.com: Henri Rousseau: The Unlikeliest Member of the Avant-Garde
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2015· 1 entry
The Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, the Musée d'Orsay, and the Musée de l'Orangerie collaborated on an exhibition Henri Rousseau that focused Rousseau’s vision and his impact on his fellow artists
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1958· 1 entry
“Yadwigha, on a Red Couch, Among Lilies”
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1911· 1 entry
A retrospective exhibition of Rousseau's works was shown at the Salon des Indépendants
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1910· 1 entry
Died 1910-09-02.
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1908· 1 entry
Picasso held a half serious, half burlesque banquet in his studio at Le Bateau-Lavoir in Rousseau's honour
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1907· 1 entry
Was commissioned by artist Robert Delaunay's mother, Berthe, Comtesse de Delaunay, to paint The Snake Charmer
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1905· 1 entry
Rousseau's large jungle scene The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope was exhibited at the Salon des indépendants near works by younger leading avant-garde artists such as Henri Matisse, in what is now seen as the
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1897· 1 entry
Produced one of his most famous paintings, The Sleeping Gypsy, which is now on display in the Barnes Foundation
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1893· 2 entries
Supplemented his small pension with part-time jobs
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Rousseau moved to a studio in Montparnasse where he lived and worked until his death in 1910
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1891· 1 entry
And Rousseau received his first serious review when the young artist Félix Vallotton wrote: "His tiger surprising its prey ought not to be missed; it's the alpha and omega of painting
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1888· 1 entry
Married his second wife, Josephine Noury, in 1899
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1871· 1 entry
Was appointed as a collector of the octroi of Paris, collecting taxes on goods entering Paris
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1868· 2 entries
Married Clémence Boitard, with whom he had six children
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To support his widowed mother as a government employee
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1844· 2 entries
Born 1844-05-21.
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Into the family of a tinsmith; he was forced to work there as a young child
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