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Only a child can so bestride the world with such ease, and only a childlike artist with a simple, naïve vision can understand this elevation and make us see it as dauntingly true.
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Rousseau's work has been described as having a "mysterious poetry" and a "dreamlike force". According to
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55.4 cm × 45.7 cm (21.8 in × 18.0 in)
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The painting was used on the cover of the May 19, 1999, issue of the
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This article about a nineteenth-century painting is a
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Henri Rousseau
National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.
painting
Henri Rousseau
Chester Dale
National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.
Nicolas Pioch
Journal of the American Medical Association
"Boy on the Rocks"
Nicolas Pioch
"Rousseau, Henri"
WebMuseum
ibiblio
doi
10.1001/jama.281.19.1775
v
t
e
Henri Rousseau
Myself, Portrait-Landscape
Tiger in a Tropical Storm
Boy on the Rocks
The Sleeping Gypsy
The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope
The Repast of the Lion
The Snake Charmer
The Banks of the Bièvre near Bicêtre

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