Notre Dame
1909 The Phillips Collection
About this artwork
This oil on canvas painting depicts a view of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris as seen from the banks of the Seine, featuring a prominent barge in the foreground. It exemplifies the artist's signature simplified forms and clear, flat application of color.
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Henri Rousseau was a self-taught toll collector who began painting seriously only after his retirement at the age of 49. Despite his lack of formal training, his unique, dreamlike style gained admiration from avant-garde masters like Pablo Picasso and Wassily Kandinsky, who championed his work as a pioneer of modernism.
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Notre Dame
Henri Rousseau, 1909
