Henri Emilien Rousseau, 1875 Le Caire, Provence - 1933 Aix-en-Provence
THE SULTAN FROM MOROCCO IN THE ACCOMPANIMENT OF A RIDER
Oil on mahogany.
20 x 16 cm.
Private collection
Henri Rousseau Henry, Emilien Rousseau
(Cairo 1875 - Aix-en-Provence in 1933) is an Orientalist painter. A pupil of
Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Beaux Arts in Paris, he won the second Grand Prix de
Rome in 1900 and a travel grant at the Salon of French Artists. He traveled to
Belgium, the Netherlands, North Africa, Spain and Italy where he admired the
great masters (Rubens, Rembrandt, Velasquez, Murillo, the Titian, Raphael etc
...)
After this initiatory journey, he settled in
Versailles and set up his studio at the Villa des Arts in Paris. In 1919 he
moved to Aix in Provence with his large family (seven children). Knight of the
Legion of Honour in arts. His work is dedicated to
Tunisia, Algeria and especially Morocco, Provence and the Camargue remained its
anchor points. His success was with a bourgeois and wealthy clientele, where he
sold his work at numerous exhibitions in Paris, Brussels, Stockholm, Marseilles. More Henri Rousseau
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