Monkeys and Parrot in the Virgin Forest
1905 Barnes Foundation
About this artwork
An oil on canvas painting featuring a lush, dense jungle scene filled with multiple monkeys and a prominent parrot. It is part of the collection at the Barnes Foundation.
Did you know?
Henri Rousseau, often called 'Le Douanier' due to his former job as a toll collector, never actually traveled to a jungle. He created his iconic exotic scenes by studying plants in Parisian botanical gardens and reading colonial travel literature, blending his observations into highly stylized, dreamlike compositions that profoundly influenced the Surrealists.
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Monkeys and Parrot in the Virgin Forest
Henri Rousseau, 1905
