You can take home a reproduction of Rousseau's Tropical Forest with Monkeys (1910) in this 11 x 14" print, printed on a white background.
While he painted exotic locales, Henri Rousseau never left France; his jungles are the dreams of a city dweller, constructed from visits to the botanical gardens, the Paris zoo, and colonial expositions, and culled from prints and reproductions. Tropical Forest with Monkeys was painted during the last months of Rousseau's life. It shows one of his signature exotic landscapes, lush, tropical, and virgin. Many of the animals in Rousseau's images have human faces or attributes. The central monkeys in this painting hold green sticks from which strings appear to dangle, suggesting fishing poles and human leisure activities, thereby emphasizing the quasi-human experience of the animals. In this sense Rousseau's anthropomorphized primates can be seen not as true wild beasts, but rather as representing an escape from the "jungle" of Paris.
You can take home a reproduction of Rousseau's Tropical Forest with Monkeys (1910) in this 11 x 14" print, printed on a white background.
- 9 x 11.5" (image), 11 x 14" (with background)
- Unframed and unmatted
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| Description | While he painted exotic locales, Henri Rousseau never left France; his jungles are the dreams of a city dweller, constructed from visits to the botanical gardens, the Paris zoo, and colonial expositions, and culled from prints and reproductions. Tropical Forest with Monkeys was painted during the last months of Rousseau's life. It shows one of his signature exotic landscapes, lush, tropical, and virgin. Many of the animals in Rousseau's images have human faces or attributes. The central monkeys in this painting hold green sticks from which strings appear to dangle, suggesting fishing poles and human leisure activities, thereby emphasizing the quasi-human experience of the animals. In this sense Rousseau's anthropomorphized primates can be seen not as true wild beasts, but rather as representing an escape from the "jungle" of Paris. You can take home a reproduction of Rousseau's Tropical Forest with Monkeys (1910) in this 11 x 14" print, printed on a white background.
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