Henri Rousseau The Repast of the Lion, ca. 1907
Henri Rousseau
(French, 1844–1910)
Room Paintings holds nine paintings by Henri Rousseau, from the National Gallery of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Met and the Art Institute of Chicago. They date from 1889 to 1910. We file most of them under Folk & Naive, and some under Post-Impressionism. The most common subjects are forests and trees, animals and cityscapes. Eight of them suit a room in our lists, most often the living room and apartment or dorm.
The 9 paintings
Henri Rousseau Sawmill, Outskirts of Paris, c. 1893/95
Henri Rousseau Outskirts of Paris, c. 1897–1905
Henri Rousseau The Banks of the Bièvre near Bicêtre, ca. 1908–09
Henri Rousseau Tropical Forest with Monkeys, 1910
Henri Rousseau Boy on the Rocks, 1895/1897
Henri Rousseau Rendezvous in the Forest, 1889
Henri Rousseau The Equatorial Jungle, 1909
Henri Rousseau Fight Between a Tiger and a Buffalo, 1908