1951 After Henri Rousseau Original "The Snake Charmer" Parisian Full-Color Print

Description

A lovely vintage full-color print of painting "La Charmeuse de Serpents" (The Snake Charmer, 1907), by Henri Rousseau. The piece … more A lovely vintage full-color print of painting "La Charmeuse de Serpents" (The Snake Charmer, 1907), by Henri Rousseau. The piece comes from limited edition folio published by Editions du Chene, in Paris, France 1951. Signed in the print: "Henri Rousseau 1907". Numbered: XI. Hand tipped-in on a board of heavy paper. Numbered. Name of the artist and information about original painting will be found by lifting the piece. First Limited Edition. Excellent condition - minor age wear on the the board, never framed.

Overall 10.75"W x 14.80"H
Image 8.60"W x 7.5"H

Here we find the Douanier (the custom officer, another name Henri Rousseau also was known as) making his plunge into the exotic. Some of the ingredients may be memories of Mexico, and some come from a book he has on botany, but the greater part from his imagination. Noteworthy is the curious distribution of the light in this canvas. He begins by painting his naked woman with due deference to modesty (and academic tradition) against the light - with the moonlight shining from behind her. But he soon breaks with this convention, or forgets it, and his magnificent pink flamingo is in full light, as are the leaves edged with chrome yellow, whose spearshaped leaves, pertaining to some fantastic variety of hortensia, are his own invention. less