The Artillerymen
1893 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
About this artwork
This oil on canvas painting depicts a group of French artillerymen posing with a cannon in a lush, green landscape. The figures are rendered with the characteristic flattened perspective and simplified forms associated with Rousseau's work.
Did you know?
Henri Rousseau, often called 'Le Douanier' due to his former job as a toll collector, was a self-taught artist whose work was initially mocked by contemporary critics. Despite this, he became a hero to the next generation of modernists, including Picasso and Kandinsky, who admired the raw, dreamlike clarity of his vision, which this painting perfectly exemplifies.
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The Artillerymen
Henri Rousseau, 1893
