# Henri Rousseau

> A toll collector who picked up a brush in middle age and painted jungles he'd never seen — so strange and flat that critics laughed, so singular that Picasso kept one on his wall.

*French painter (1844–1910)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Artist
- **Category:** Artists
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1844-05-21
- **Died:** 1910-09-02
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was born on 21 May 1844 in France and spent decades as a customs officer, a job that earned him the nickname Le Douanier. He didn't take painting seriously until his early forties, working in a self-taught style that would later be called Naïve or Primitive. At 49 he retired to paint full-time, turning out work that critics ridiculed for its technical awkwardness and childlike flatness. He died on 2 September 1910, still largely dismissed. Only afterward did the art world reverse itself, recognizing him as a self-taught genius whose odd, dream-dense canvases influenced generations of avant-garde artists who saw what the establishment had missed.

## Fame
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- **Category rank:** #249

## Topics
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