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Henri Rousseau

1844 - 1910

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Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (French: [ɑ̃ʁi ʒyljɛ̃ feliks ʁuso]; 21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910) was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties; by age 49, he retired from his job to work on his art full-time. Ridiculed during his lifetime by critics, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Rousseau is the 73rd most popular painter (down from 68th in 2019), the 218th most popular biography from France (down from 185th in 2019) and the 18th most popular French Painter.

Henri Rousseau was a French painter who is most famous for his paintings of jungle scenes.

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Among painters, Henri Rousseau ranks 73 out of 2,023. Before him are Lucas Cranach the Elder, Théodore Géricault, Francisco de Zurbarán, Ilya Repin, Frans Hals, and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. After him are Pietro Perugino, Rogier van der Weyden, Alfred Sisley, Gustave Doré, Bob Ross, and Jackson Pollock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Henri Rousseau ranks 10. Before him are Anatole France, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Paul Verlaine, Bernadette Soubirous, Mehmed V, and Ilya Repin. After him are Ludwig Boltzmann, Menelik II, Umberto I of Italy, Alexandra of Denmark, Klas Pontus Arnoldson, and Peter I of Serbia. Among people deceased in 1910, Henri Rousseau ranks 9. Before him are Mark Twain, Robert Koch, Henry Dunant, Florence Nightingale, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, and William James. After him are Nadar, O. Henry, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Mily Balakirev, Chulalongkorn, and Johann Gottfried Galle.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Rousseau ranks 218 out of 6,770. Before him are Petronius (27), Erik Satie (1866), Pope Sylvester II (938), Charles the Bold (1433), Jacques Cousteau (1910), and Jeanne Calment (1875). After him are Frédéric Passy (1822), Louis XI of France (1423), François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), Carloman I (751), Brigitte Macron (1953), and Henry Cavendish (1731).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Henri Rousseau ranks 18. Before him are Nicolas Poussin (1594), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Georges Braque (1882), Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684), Jean-François Millet (1814), and Théodore Géricault (1791). After him are Alfred Sisley (1839), Gustave Doré (1832), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), Georges Seurat (1859), Berthe Morisot (1841), and François Boucher (1703).

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