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Henri Rousseau

A Corner of the Park at Bellevue, Autumn, Sunset (Un Coin du plateau de Bellevue. automne, soleil couchant), 1902

Description

Maker

  • Henri Rousseau, 1844-1910, French

Title

A Corner of the Park at Bellevue, Autumn, Sunset (Un Coin du plateau de Bellevue. automne, soleil couchant)

Year

1902

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • oil paint

Supports

  • canvas

Dimensions

61.6 x 50.8 cm (24 1/4 x 20 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed LL:Henri Rousseau

Place

France

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Henry D. Sharpe

Object Number

77.114

About

In this view of a park on the outskirts of Paris, Henri Rousseau depicted a man heading into the woods toward a brilliantly colored sunset. Carefully drawn webs of trees and plants fill the image and cast shadows that envelop the figure. As night descends, the intense light of the sun between the lower branches softens to a rosy glow in the sky above. Rousseau was a self-trained artist who worked as a clerk in the customs office of the city of Paris. His naïve landscapes and portraits combined close observation of nature with surprising leaps of the imagination. Although he never traveled beyond France, he was able to create visions of mysterious environments from his experiences in local parks and zoos. His work attracted the admiration of Picasso and of other artists who saw in his homespun realist style a personal approach to the representation of both nature and emotional states.

Signed LL:Henri Rousseau

France
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Projects & Publications

Publications

Henri Rousseau

Archaic Naiveté

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

"The Center Cannot Hold"

March 1 - July 1, 1999

From the Reserve III

July 8 - December 4, 1994

Masterpieces from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

July 18 - September 14, 1979

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is A Corner of the Park at Bellevue, Autumn, Sunset (Un Coin du plateau de Bellevue. automne, soleil couchant) with the accession number of 77.114. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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