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Henri Rousseau
Myself: Portrait-Landscape, oil on canvas by Henri Rousseau, 1890; in the National Gallery, Prague. 146 × 113 cm.
The avant-garde review Le Mercure de France was the first publication to feature an article praising the art of Henri Rousseau. This recognition occurred in connection with his painting The War (1894), which was exhibited at the 1894 Salon des Indépendants.1