The Dream, Henri Rousseau Fine Art Playing Cards

The Dream, Henri Rousseau, oil on canvas 1910. Henri Julien Félix Rousseau ( May 21, 1844 – September 2, 1910) was a French Post-Impressionist fine art painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humourous description of his occupation as a toll collector. Ridiculed during his lifetime, he came to be recognised as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. His best known paintings depict jungle scenes, even though he never left France or saw a jungle. Vintage retro artistic unique original creative colourful beautiful Post Impressionism landscape and animal fine art nature painting.