Henri Rousseau · 1907
The Snake Charmer (La Charmeuse de serpents)
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A dark figure with glowing eyes plays a flute at the moonlit edge of a jungle, a snake around her shoulders and others gliding toward her from the trees and reeds, a pink wading bird beside the water. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Up to 13.6 × 12 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of The Snake Charmer (La Charmeuse de serpents)
The Snake Charmer was commissioned by Berthe, Comtesse de Delaunay, the mother of the painter Robert Delaunay, and was Rousseau's first large commission. It was exhibited at the 1907 Autumn Salon. Its exotic plants came from Rousseau's visits to the Jardin des Plantes and from magazines, as he never travelled outside France. The painting belonged to Jacques Doucet from 1922 to 1936, was promised to the Louvre in 1925 and entered its collection in 1937.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Henri Rousseau
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier, a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties; by age 49, he retired from his job to work on his art full-time.
All Henri Rousseau prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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