Henri Rousseau French, 1844–1910

MayHenri Rousseau was born on May 21, 1844, in Laval, France.¹

Henri Rousseau married Clémence Boitard in 1868 and later married Josephine Noury.²

Henri Rousseau exhibited his work at the Salon des Indépendants in 1905, the same year that the Fauvist movement is considered to have begun.³

In 1908, Picasso hosted a banquet in Rousseau's honor at his studio, known as 'Le Banquet Rousseau'.²

SepHenri Rousseau died on September 2, 1910, in Paris, at the age of 66.¹