Henri Rousseau

E146493
French painter Post-Impressionist artist human painter

Henri Rousseau was a self-taught French Post-Impressionist painter best known for his dreamlike jungle scenes and naive, richly detailed style.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Henri Rousseau canonical 9
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf French painter ⓘ
Post-Impressionist artist ⓘ
human ⓘ
painter ⓘ
artisticPeriod early 20th century ⓘ
late 19th century ⓘ
birthDate 1844-05-21 ⓘ
birthPlace Laval, Mayenne, France ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship France ⓘ
deathDate 1910-09-02 ⓘ
deathPlace Paris ⓘ
surface form: Paris, France
education self-taught in painting ⓘ
employer French customs authorities ⓘ
surface form: Paris customs office
exhibitedAt Salon des Indépendants ⓘ
familyName Jean-Jacques Rousseau ⓘ
surface form: Rousseau
field painting ⓘ
fullName Henri Rousseau self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Henri Julien Félix Rousseau
genre allegorical painting ⓘ
landscape painting ⓘ
portrait painting ⓘ
givenName Henri ⓘ
influenced Naïve and outsider artists ⓘ
Pablo Picasso ⓘ
Surrealist painters ⓘ
influencedBy academic art ⓘ
botanical gardens in Paris ⓘ
illustrated books ⓘ
knownFor dreamlike jungle scenes ⓘ
fantastical compositions ⓘ
naive, richly detailed style ⓘ
movement Naïve art ⓘ
Post-Impressionism ⓘ
Naïve art ⓘ
surface form: Primitivism
name Henri Rousseau self-link ⓘ
nationality French ⓘ
nickname Le Douanier Rousseau ⓘ
notableWork The Dream ⓘ
The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope ⓘ
The Sleeping Gypsy ⓘ
The Snake Charmer ⓘ
Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!) ⓘ
War (The Ride of Discord) ⓘ
occupation customs officer ⓘ
painter ⓘ
residence Paris ⓘ
surface form: Paris, France
style highly detailed foliage and patterning ⓘ
naïve ⓘ
self-taught ⓘ

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: Henri Rousseau
Description of subject: Henri Rousseau was a self-taught French Post-Impressionist painter best known for his dreamlike jungle scenes and naive, richly detailed style.

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

The Phillips Collection → hasWorkBy → Henri Rousseau ⓘ
Académie Julian → student → Henri Rousseau ⓘ
Henri → notableBearer → Henri Rousseau ⓘ
Salon des Indépendants → notableExhibitor → Henri Rousseau ⓘ
The Barnes Foundation → hasCollectionItemBy → Henri Rousseau ⓘ
Henri Rousseau → name → Henri Rousseau self-link ⓘ
Henri Rousseau → fullName → Henri Rousseau self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Henri Julien Félix Rousseau
Salon d'Automne → hasNotableArtistExhibited → Henri Rousseau ⓘ
Naïve art → notableArtist → Henri Rousseau ⓘ
Rue du Cardinal-Lemoine → hasNotableResident → Henri Rousseau ⓘ