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- NAME: Henri Rousseau
- OCCUPATION: Painter
- BIRTH DATE: May 21, 1844
- DEATH DATE: September 02, 1910
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Laval, France
- PLACE OF DEATH: Paris, France
- AKA: Le Douanier Rousseau
- Full Name: Henri Julien Félix Rousseau
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Henri Rousseau was a self-taught French painter who was ridiculed during his lifetime but was later given the title of artistic genius.
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Henri Rousseau was a self-taught French painter who was ridiculed during his lifetime but was later given the title of artistic genius. For much of his life, Henri worked as a tax collector - the reason he was known as Le Douanier - to friends. He always drew, but in 1893, at almost 50-years-old, decided to devote himself to painting. His The Hungry Lion was exhibited with the Fauves in 1905.
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