Notre Dame, View of the Ile Saint-Louis Notre Dame Rousseau, Henri Architectural Illustration Churches Fantasy Naive art Henri Rousseau, 1844–1910, French primitive painter, b. Laval. He was, from the first, entirely self-taught, and his work remained consistently naive and imaginative. Rousseau was called Le Douanier because before he retired to paint (1885), he held a minor post in the Paris customs service. Although, by his own account, he had lived in Mexico in his youth, his remarkable landscapes have no counterpart in nature. Rousseau exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants from 1886. Davis Publications, Worchester, Massachusetts 1909 CE Painting Digital image Tiff; JPEG2000 Oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC 19th century; French Paris, France Davis Publications, Worchester, Massachusetts
Notre Dame, View of the Ile Saint-Louis
Notre Dame
Rousseau, Henri
Architectural Illustration
Churches
Fantasy
Naive art
Henri Rousseau, 1844–1910, French primitive painter, b. Laval. He was, from the first, entirely self-taught, and his work remained consistently naive and imaginative. Rousseau was called Le Douanier because before he retired to paint (1885), he held a minor post in the Paris customs service. Although, by his own account, he had lived in Mexico in his youth, his remarkable landscapes have no counterpart in nature. Rousseau exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants from 1886.
Davis Publications, Worchester, Massachusetts
1909 CE
Painting
Digital image
Tiff; JPEG2000
Oil on canvas
Phillips Collection, Washington DC
19th century; French
Paris, France
Davis Publications, Worchester, Massachusetts