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Henri Rousseau
Myself: Portrait-Landscape, oil on canvas by Henri Rousseau, 1890; in the National Gallery, Prague. 146 × 113 cm.
Henri Rousseau retired from his position at the Paris toll office in 1893 to dedicate himself entirely to his career as a painter.1