Rare Vintage 1950s Henri Rousseau Still Life "Flowers" Swiss Art Print

Bouquet of Flowers is an oil-on-canvas painting by Henri Rousseau in 1910. As of 2026, it is located at Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland.

Commentary accompanying the 1950s print: "FLOWERS (1908). When the Douanier paints flowers from nature (as in this case), the results are less happy than when he invents them; this we must admit. Interiors were never his strong point, and he was obviously bothered by the background and the table in this picture. But the distribution of tones bespeaks the artist. An artist who, moreover, is not wholly unaware of certain pictorial "recipes", judging by the pansies, whose surface he has adroitly fretted with these lines—a little "trick" nowise disdained by such painters as Matisse and Picasso."

Note that modern sources attribute the date of 1910 to this piece while the mid-century sources and commentary state it was painted in 1908. 

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.