Henri Rousseau
French painter (1844–1910)
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Updated 2026-05-29
French painter who turned customs officer into art-world punchline after ditching his day job at 49 to paint lush, dreamy jungles he'd never actually seen. His naïve style made him a fixture of early 20th-century Paris despite peers treating him like a joke.
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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.
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