Henri Rousseau French, 1844–1910
The Waterfall
1910
Henri Rousseau's 'The Waterfall' (1910), painted in the last year of the self-taught Parisian master's life, depicts a pair of tiny Indigenous figures at the foot of a tropical waterfall, the jungle built up leaf by leaf in Rousseau's signature Naïve clarity. Oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago.
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Image source: Art Institute of Chicago