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The Jungle Line |
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Henri
Rousseau died one hundred years ago this year on 2 September 1910. |
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| 1FK-2126-A1890-C Self-portrait, 1890 Photo: akg-images / Erich Lessing |
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1FK-2126-A1903 A later self-portrait before his 60th birthday Photo: akg-images |
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| 2-A71-A1-1905-1 Liberty inviting artists to take part in the 22nd Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, 1905-6 Photo: akg-images |
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2-A30-A1-1896-2 Banlieu, circa 1896 Photo: akg-images |
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| 2-B30-A17-1809 Rousseau never left France. Inspiration for his exotic paintings come from a number of sources including botantical illustrations, such as this illustration of aloe. Photo: akg-images |
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2-L13-A1-1910-38-C Jungle landscape with setting sun, 1910 Photo: akg-images |
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| 2-B30-P1-1796-1 Palm trees as seen in an 18th-century engraving Photo: akg-images |
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2-L13-A1-1907-19 The Flamingoes, 1907 Photo: akg-images |
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| 2-Z20-K1-1909 Le Petit Journal was also a source of inspiration for Rousseau. Compare this cover showing a tiger attacking a man... Photo: akg-images |
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2-L13-A1-1891-8 ... with the tiger in Surpris!, 1891 Photo: akg-images / Erich Lessing |
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5FK-P1-P9-1810-1 Another place of inspiration for Rousseau, the Jardin des Plantes in Paris... Photo: akg-images |
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5FK-P1-P9-1852-4 ... and an interior view of the botanical gardens in the Jardin des Plantes, 1852 Photo: akg-images |
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| 1FK-833-B1910 Guillaume Apollinaire, friend of Rousseau and composer of the epitaph on Rousseau's tombstone Photo: akg-images |
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7-L3-Z40-11-20-32 The Muse inspires the poet (Marie Laurencin and Guillaume Apollinaire), 1909 Photo: akg-images / Erich Lessing |
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| 3FK-R8-R1-B Two portraits of women: one now in the Musée d'Orsay, circa 1895... Photo: akg-images / Erich Lessing |
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2-M145-A2-1906-21 ... and a portrait some 10 years later, now in Neuss. Photo: akg-images |
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| 2-Z10-J1-1910-1-B A horse attacked by a jaguar, 1910 Photo: akg-images / Electa |
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2-V28-K1-1908-1 The Little Carriage of Père Juniet, 1908 Photo: akg-images / Erich Lessing |
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| 3FK-R8-C1 A view of the Pont de Sèvres, 1908 Photo: akg-images |
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code Snake Charmer, 1907 Photo: akg-images / Erich Lessing |
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| 3FK-R8-A2 An exotic landscape with monkeys and a parrot, 1908 Photo: akg-images |
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2-K40-S3-1909-15 And to finish, a bouquet of flowers from 1909 Photo: akg-images |
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