Description Artist: Henri Rousseau Created: 1886 Dimensions (cm): 117.3 × 89.5 Format: Oil on canvas Location: Philadelphia Museum of Art A Portrait Landscape. Known for his fantastic imagery, Rousseau was a self-taught artist whose works appealed to the collectors and avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century, including Pablo Picasso. A mysterious atmosphere and mood can be felt in this highly poetic painting, with unique characters and incongruent details that have made this one of the artist’s most famous pieces. Rousseau called this a portrait landscape because the portrait in the foreground is right on top of the landscape background. Designed in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
