Description
Henri Rousseau – The Banks of the Bièvre near Bicêtre
| Year of creation: | 1901 |
| Original size: | 45.7 cm x 54.6 cm |
| Painting style: | Post-impressionism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | The Metropolitan Museum, New York |
Rousseau looked for motifs in postcards, photographs and magazines, in botanical books and on visits to forests and zoos. He painted in the style of naive or primitivism.
In this painting, he depicted walkers under tall trees, to whose branches he added movement similar to the bodies of snakes.
