The Art of Henri Rousseau

Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was ridiculed in his own lifetime, but posthumously achieving his ambition of having his work exhibited in the Louvre, he is nowadays considered a talented Naïve painter. With the revolutionary changes in art in the start of the 20th century came a reappraisal of previously dismissed genres, including Naïve painting. (Rousseau, Henri. The Dream. c. 1910. oil on