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Henri Rousseau was exhibiting his painting, The Snake Charmer at the Salon d’Automne in Paris in 1907. Why was he sat behind a curtain in an obscure part of the galley? The video explains.
Henri Rousseau was born in Laval in France and worked for a solicitor when he left school. He joined the army in 1863.
Henri Rousseau exaggerates a great deal for example he claimed to serve in Mexico where he got inspiration for his jungle paintings – but there is no evidence from army records that he left France. He left the army in 1868, moved to Paris, France and married Clemence Boitard before getting a job as a tax collector on gates of Paris. He started copying paintings in the Louvre in 1884 and was totally self-taught.
In 1885 Henri Rousseau exhibited his first pictures at the Salon des Refuses, Paris. The paintings had technical problems but had a naïve charm about them. His ‘paintings Surprised’, Old Junior’s Cart and ‘Scout attacked by a Tiger ‘are amongst is most important works.
In 1908 Picasso presents him with a cardboard medal in his studio at the Bateau Lavoir in Paris. He died a pauper in 1910 and is buried in a pauper’s grave, 7 people attend his funeral. He was reburied in 1912 and again in 1947.
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