Luxembourg Gardens: Monument to Chopin
1909 Hermitage Museum
About this artwork
This oil on canvas painting depicts a park scene featuring stylized trees and the monument dedicated to the composer Frédéric Chopin in the Luxembourg Gardens of Paris. It exemplifies the artist's characteristic flat perspective and decorative approach to nature.
Did you know?
Henri Rousseau, often known as 'Le Douanier' due to his previous career as a toll collector, was a self-taught artist whose work was initially ridiculed by the Parisian art establishment. He eventually became a hero to the avant-garde, with younger artists like Picasso and Matisse admiring his unique, intuitive sense of composition and disregard for academic rules.
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Luxembourg Gardens: Monument to Chopin
Henri Rousseau, 1909
