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Henri Rousseau: Le Rêve (The Dream), 1910
Source: Wikimedia Commons (see "image archives" below)
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Henri Rousseau Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Henri Rousseau available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
2 works online
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Luxembourg Gardens. Monument to Shopin, 1909
View of the Fortifications to the left of the Gate of Vanves, 1909
In a Tropical Forest. Struggle between Tiger and Bull, ca.1908-09
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
A Centennial of Independence, 1892
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
"Works in focus:" Portrait of Madame M.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
"Works in focus:" The Snake Charmer
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
"Works in focus:" War
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City 
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Gallery, London, UK
Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!)
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
View of the Ile de la Cité, Paris
Undocumented feature: Click here to see the image at a much higher resolution.
Beyeler Foundation Collection, Switzerland
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
House on the Outskirts of Paris, ca.1905
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Rue en Banlieue
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "R"
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris (in French) 
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Museum Charlotte Zander, Bönnigheim, Germany (in German)
Le charme, 1909
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
3 works by Rousseau
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Liberty Inviting Artists to Take Part in the 22nd Exhibition of the Societe des Artistes Independants, 1905-06
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Still Life, Vase of Flowers
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
The Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania
Scout Attacked by a Tiger, 1904
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Tropical Landscape: American Indian Struggling with Gorilla, 1910
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Google Art Project
The Dream (MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Google Art Project
The Sleeping Gypsy (MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Henri Rousseau at The Artchive
Henri Rousseau at The Athenaeum 
101 works online by Rousseau
Henri Rousseau in the WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Henri Rousseau at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Rasiel's Wallpapers
(Click on the size of the scan you wish to view)
Works by Henri Rousseau to be found on pages 1 and 2 of this site
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Henri Rousseau 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Stumble in the jungle", 2005 article by Adrian Searle
The New Yorker
"Henri Rousseau retrospective at the Tate Modern, London", 2006 review by Peter Schjeldahl
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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Rousseau
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Henri Rousseau: A Jungle Expedition
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