Henri Rousseau

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The Snake Charmer, 1907 (Musée d’Orsay, Paris, legs de Jacques Doucet, 1936/© RMN, Paris/© Hervé Lewandowski) Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Old Junier’s Cart, 1908 (Musée national de l’Orangerie, Paris, Collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume/© RMN, Paris/© Franck Raux) Musée national de l’Orangerie, Paris

Tropical Forest with Monkeys, 1910 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., John Hay Whitney Collection, 1982/National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Courtesy of the Board of Trustees) National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Courtesy of the Board of Trustees

Portrait of Monsieur X (Pierre Loti), around 1910 (Kunsthaus Zürich/© 2010 Kunsthaus Zürich) Kunsthaus Zürich

The Football Players, 1908 (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

The Boat in the Storm, after 1896 (Musée national de l’Orangerie, Paris, Collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume/© RMN, Paris/ © Franck Raux) Musée national de l’Orangerie, Paris

Picasso in his studio in the country house with the Rousseau couple (© 2010 Pablo Picasso/Succession Picasso und André Gomes bei ProLitteris, Zürich/© RMN, Paris/Droits réservés) © 2010 Pablo Picasso / Succession Picasso und André Gomes

The Muse Inspiring the Poet, 1909 (Kunstmuseum Basel/© 2010 ProLitteris, Zürich und Martin P. Bühler) Kunstmuseum Basel

The Merry Jesters, 1906 (Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection) Philadelphia Museum of Art

Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!), 1891 (The National Gallery, London/© 2010 The National Gallery, London) The National Gallery, London

Rousseau in his studio in Paris, picture by Picasso, 1910 (2010 Succession Picasso/ProLitteris, Zürich/© RMN, Paris/Droits réservés) © 2010 Succession Picasso / ProLitteris, Zürich

Jungle with Setting Sun, around 1910 (Kunstmuseum Basel/© 2010 ProLitteris, Zürich und Martin P. Bühler) Kunstmuseum Basel

The Representatives of Foreign Powers Coming to Greet the Republic, 1907 (Musée national Picasso, Paris, donation Picasso/© RMN, Paris/ © René-Gabriel Ojéda) Musée national Picasso, Paris

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A century after the painter's death, the Beyeler Foundation hosts a show of his work.

Rousseau, originally a French customs official, had no formal art training and painted in his free time. It was years before his art, then considered non-academic and naive, found recognition. The exhibition is made up of around 40 masterworks of this pioneer of Classical Modern art.