Henri Rousseau - Cliffs Magnet

Cliffs (La falaise), painted in 1895 in oil on canvas by French painter Henri Rousseau, also known as Le Douanier Rousseau. The painting depicts a Normandy coastal cliff, an unusual subject for an artist who rarely travelled far from Paris. Rousseau probably recomposed the scene from reproductions of other cliff paintings, simplifying rock and sea into broad shapes and adding fishermen and large sailing ships.