People from Laval, Mayenne - Alfred Jarry, Henri Rousseau, Jean-Marie Guyau, Manuela Montebrun, Louis Nogu Res, G Rard Leli Vre, Yann Clairay (Paperback)

Chapters: Alfred Jarry, Henri Rousseau, Jean-Marie Guyau, Manuela Montebrun, Louis Nogu res, G rard Leli vre, Yann Clairay, Andr Bellessort. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Henri Julien F lix Rousseau (May 21, 1844 September 2, 1910) was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naive or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer) after his place of employment. Ridiculed during his life, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. Henri Rousseau was born in Laval, Mayenne in the Loire Valley into the family of a plumber. He attended Laval High School as a day student and then as a boarder, after his father became a debtor and his parents had to leave the town upon the seizure of their house. He was mediocre in some subjects at the high school but won prizes for drawing and music. He worked for a lawyer and studied law, but "attempted a small perjury and sought refuge in the army," serving for four years, starting in 1863. With his father's death, Rousseau moved to Paris in 1868 to support his widowed mother as a government employee. In 1868 he married Cl mence Boitard, his landlord's 15 year-old daughter, with whom he had 9 children (only 7 survived). In 1871, he was promoted to the toll collector's office in Paris as a tax collector. His wife died in 1888 and he later remarried Josephine Noury in 1898. He started painting seriously in his early forties, and by age 49 in 1893 he retired from his job to work on his art full time. Rousseau claimed he had "no teacher other than nature," although he admitted he had received "some advice" from two established Academic painters, F lix Auguste-Cl ment and Jean-L on G r me. Essentially he was self-taught and is considered to ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=572862