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Henri Rousseau

1844 - 1910

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Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (French: [ɑ̃ʁi ʒyljɛ̃ feliks ʁuso]; 21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910) was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Rousseau has received more than 1,701,208 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Rousseau is the 68th most popular painter (up from 72nd in 2019), the 203rd most popular biography from France (down from 192nd in 2019) and the 19th most popular French Painter.

Henri Rousseau was a French painter who is most famous for his paintings of jungle scenes.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Henri Rousseau ranks 68 out of 1,421. Before him are Jackson Pollock, Giovanni Bellini, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Théodore Géricault, Alfred Sisley, and Piero della Francesca. After him are Lucas Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Alphonse Mucha, Gustave Doré, Frans Hals, and Pietro Perugino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Henri Rousseau ranks 10. Before him are Mehmed V, Anatole France, Paul Verlaine, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Ilya Repin, and Bernadette Soubirous. After him are Ludwig Boltzmann, Peter I of Serbia, Umberto I of Italy, Alexandra of Denmark, Friedrich Ratzel, and Mary Cassatt. Among people deceased in 1910, Henri Rousseau ranks 8. Before him are Florence Nightingale, Mark Twain, Robert Koch, Henry Dunant, William James, and Edward VII. After him are Nadar, O. Henry, Mily Balakirev, Marius Petipa, Luigi Lucheni, and Léon Walras.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Rousseau ranks 203 out of 6,011. Before him are Georges Pompidou (1911), Jacques de Molay (1243), Pope Clement VI (1291), Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (1113), François Truffaut (1932), and Henri de Saint-Simon (1760). After him are Léon Foucault (1819), Richard II of England (1367), Nicéphore Niépce (1765), Georges Méliès (1861), Charles IV of France (1294), and Saint Roch (1295).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Henri Rousseau ranks 19. Before him are Nicolas Poussin (1594), Georges Braque (1882), Georges Seurat (1859), Jean-François Millet (1814), Théodore Géricault (1791), and Alfred Sisley (1839). After him are Gustave Doré (1832), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), François Boucher (1703), Honoré Daumier (1808), Paul Signac (1863), and Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732).

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