Henri Rousseau · 1910
The Dream
Posters from $15 · Canvas from $39
Rousseau's last painting — a reclining nude on a Victorian sofa in the middle of a tropical jungle full of staring animals and a flute player. MoMA.
Up to 16 × 11 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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The story of The Dream
The Dream is a large oil-on-canvas painting created by Henri Rousseau in 1910, one of more than 25 Rousseau paintings with a jungle theme. His last completed work, it was first exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants from 18 March to 1 May 1910, a few months before his death on 2 September 1910. Rousseau's earlier works had received a negative reception, but poet and critic Guillaume Apollinaire remarked on its debut: "The picture radiates beauty, that is indisputable. I believe nobody will laugh this year."
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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