Le Douanier ♡HENRI ROUSSEAU♡ avec ERIK SATIE•*¨*•♫

Henri Julien Félix 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. Rousseau started painting seriously in his early forties, and by age 49 he retired from his job to work on his art full-time. Ridiculed during his life, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. He claimed he had “no teacher other than nat