One of Henri Rousseau’s works is among the most widely known paintings in Western art (as in European and American, not “cowboys and Indians”). Filed in many ...

Sunday — the last lazy summer Sunday before school begins and political campaigns get serious and the Redskins start to lose real games — the family and I went to the National Gallery to see the most ...

The tradition of treating Rousseau as someone who's lucky just to be here lives on—but the work speaks for itself. "Henri Rousseau: A Painter's Secrets," 2025. The Barnes Foundation, installation view ...

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 ...

“I never saw such poverty as I saw in Rousseau’s studio,” recalled the artist Max Weber, one of the first patrons of the self-taught painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910). Having retired early from a job ...

The year is 1890 and Henri Rousseau, palette in hand, is standing to attention for the occasion of his self-portrait, an arrestingly large picture entitled Myself, Portrait-Landscape. Wearing his ...