lblanchard | All the Rousseau photos

There are close to 60 objects in the Henri Rousseau: A Painter's Secrets exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, and images of every single one of them are behind the cut tag. You have been warned!

All images are click-to-embiggen. Many diacritical markings have been omitted (technical difficulties). I've noted the ownership of paintings in Philadelphia collections but not others. Perhaps I should go back and add the ownership. Maybe later...

Entrance. The text is legible when the image is enlarged.

Interpretive signage for the following images

The Toll Gate, 1890. As a clerk for the Paris toll service, Rousseau served at gates like this one before taking early retirement in 1893.

The Painter and His Model, 1900-1905. It may be a portrait of Rousseau and his second wife, Joséphine.

Dahlia and Daises in a Vase, c. 1904

The Past and the Present, or Philosophical Thought, 1899. Rousseau and his second wife, Joséphine Noury. The couple's first spouses hover in the clouds. The Barnes owns this.

Carnival Evening, 1886. This one belongs to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and I have spent some little time staring at it.

Carnival Evening (detail)

Rendezvous in the Forest, 1889.

The Walk in the Forest, c. 1886.

Woman Walking in an Exotic Forest, c. 1910. This belongs to the Barnes.

Portrait of a Woman in a Landscape, 1899. This belongs to the Barnes.

Interpretive signage for the following images

The Representatives of Foreign Powers Coming to Greet the Republic as a Sign of Peace, 1907.

Detail, "Representatives." Note the unhappy lion, perhaps because he doesn't want to be peaceable?

Detail, "Representatives"

View of Clichy Bridge at Asnières, c. 1900-1902

View of the Quai D'Asnières, April 1900-1902. The Barnes owns this.

View of the Grenelle Bridge, 1892

The Carmagnole, 1893

Artillerymen, c. 1893-95

Portrait of Frumence Biche, 1893

War, c. 1894. This painting is huge.

The Horrors of War, 1895. Commissioned lithograph.

Interpretive signage for the following images

The Football Players, 1908

The Rabbit's Meal, 1908. The Barnes owns this.

Pere Junier's Cart, 1908

Pere Junier's Cart, 1908, detail

The Family, c. 1892-1900, with grumpy baby. The Barnes owns this

Young Girls in Pink, oil on canvas. The Philadelphia Museum of Art owns this

Child with a Doll, c. 1892

The Wedding, 1905

Portrait of Madame M., c. 1895

Portrait of Madame M., detail

Portrait of a Woman, 1895

Portrait of a Man, 1887

Portrait of a Woman, 1887

Interpretive signage for the following images

View of the Ile Saint Louis from the Quai Henri IV, 1909

Notre Dame, 1909

The Chair Factory, c. 1897

The Chair Factory at Alfortville, 1897. There had been roadwork between the painting of these two views.

The Ship in the Storm, c. 1899

Still Life with Coffee Pot, 1910

The Cliff, c. 1895

The Pink Candle, 1908

Grouping of the previous four paintings

Strollers in the Park, between 1900 and 1910

House on the Outskirts of Paris, c. 1905

Sawmill, Outskirts of Paris, c. 1893-95

The Banks of the Bievre near Bicetre, c. 1908-9

The Anglers, between 1908 and 1909

Suburb, 1896

The Great Laundry Boat at Charenton Bridge, c. 1897-1903

Landscape and Four Fishermen, 1909

Grouping of the previous three paintings

Interpretive signage for the following images. I want to go back on a weekday morning when the gallery is unlikely to be crowded (there's a bench) and just sit and soak up Rousseau's jungle.

The Merry Jesters, 1906. The Philadelphia Museum of Art owns this

Fight between a Tiger and a Buffalo, 1908

Scouts attacked by a Tiger. The Barnes owns this

Tropical Landscape -- an American Indian Struggling with a Gorilla, 1910

Tropical Landscape -- an American Indian Struggling with a Gorilla, 1910 (detail)

Jungle Landscape with Setting Sun, c. 1910

The Waterfall, 1910

Tropical Forest with Monkeys, 1910

Eve in the Earthly Paradise, c. 1906-7

Interpretive signage for the final "Enigma" gallery, containing three monumental paintings.

The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897

The Sleeping Gypsy, deteail

Unpleasant Surprise, 1899-1901. The Barnes owns this

The Snake Charmer, 1907

Gallery displaying the three "Enigma" paintings, never before displayed together

That's a lot of Rousseau to take in at once.