Hikers climbing up to a Mountain Chalet
Henri Rousseau (French, 1844–1910)
c. 1888
- Medium
- Black crayon, with graphite, heightened with white chalk and white pencil, on tan wove paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 38.9 × 31.8 cm (15 3/8 × 12 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
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.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
