Rare Vintage 1940s Rousseau "The Football Players" German Offset Lithograph

A beautiful vintage 1940s reproduction of Rousseau’s The Football Players (1908) tipped in on thick heavy paper with incredible patina. Color art plate (7" x 8 5/8") can be lifted at the bottom right corner to reveal commentary on the work in German.   

Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (1844-1910) was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier, a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector.