Hikers climbing up to a Mountain Chalet

Museum record 186405: Hikers climbing up to a Mountain Chalet by Henri Rousseau. A verified entry point for discovery.

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When Rousseau was a toll operator for one of Paris’s city gates, he made the decision to become an artist. With no academic training, he started copying works at the Musée du Louvre in 1884 and two years later exhibited his works with the Neo-Impressionists at the Salon des Indépendants. In this drawing Rousseau’s lack of formal training is evident in the flattened forms and odd spatial relations of the landscape. These idiosyncrasies would inspire artists such as Vasily Kandinsky and Pablo Picasso. MyAr…