Henri Rousseau
French, 1844–1910
Hikers climbing up to a Mountain Chalet
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Henri Rousseau
French, 1844–1910c. 1888
Hikers climbing up to a Mountain Chalet
Henri Rousseau French, 1844–1910 →prints and drawingchalk
Date
c. 1888
Medium
Black crayon, with graphite, heightened with white chalk and white pencil, on tan wove paper
Dimensions
38.9 × 31.8 cm (15 3/8 × 12 9/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
When Rousseau was a toll operator for one of Paris’s city gates, he made the decision to become an artist. With no academic training, he started copying works at the Musée du Louvre in 1884 and two years later exhibited his works with the Neo-Impressionists at the Salon des Indépendants. In this drawing Rousseau’s lack of formal training is evident in the flattened forms and odd spatial relations of the landscape. These idiosyncrasies would inspire artists such as Vasily Kandinsky and Pablo Picasso.
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