Definition of Henri Rousseau

1. Noun. French primitive painter (1844-1910).

Exact synonyms: Le Douanier Rousseau, Rousseau
Generic synonyms: Painter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Henri Rousseau

Hennebert's sign
Henny
Henny Penny
Henoch's chorea
Henoch's purpura
Henoch-Schonlein purpura
Henoch-Schonlein syndrome
Henri Becquerel
Henri Bergson
Henri Clemens van de Velde
Henri Emile Benoit Matisse
Henri Labrouste
Henri Louis Bergson
Henri Matisse
Henri Rousseau (current term)
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri van de Velde
Henrietta
Henriette
Henriette Rosine Bernard
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen
Henry
Henry's law
Henry-Gauer response
Henry Alfred Kissinger
Henry Beauclerc
Henry Bolingbroke
Henry Cavendish

Literary usage of Henri Rousseau

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville and Poets by Marsden Hartley (1921)
"... Henri Rousseau NOT long since, we heard much of naivete—it was the fashion among the schools and the lesser individuals to use this term in describing ..."

2. Cubists and Post-impressionism by Arthur Jerome Eddy (1914)
"... and one whose work is wholly different, Henri Rousseau, the custom house employee who painted without instruction; later, but also conspicuously, ..."

3. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1911)
"On the 4th, Henri Rousseau, an eccentric French painter, known as " le primitif moderne," and a leader of the " Post-Impressionists." On the 5th, aged 79, ..."

4. Idling in Italy: Studies of Literature and of Life by Joseph Collins (1920)
"It is difficult now to believe that Ce'zanne, Courbet, Renoir, Picasso, Henri Rousseau, Gaugin, Van Gogh, and the school of impressionists and ..."

5. Paris by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1887)
"... the XV. c. sepulchral bas-relief of Henri Rousseau, advocate of Parliament ; a XVI. c. statue of S. Landry ; and a pretended statue of Charlemagne, ..."

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