Henri Rousseau, French Painter

He was born in Laval in the Loire Valley into the family of a tinsmith. He worked for a lawyer and studied law, but "attempted a small perjury and sought refuge in the army,"[1] serving for four years, starting in 1863. With his father's death, Rousseau moved to Paris in 1868 to support his widowed mother as a government employee. With his new job in hand, in 1869 he started a relationship with a cabinetmaker's daughter, Clemence Boitard. In 1871, he was promoted to the toll collector's office in Paris as a tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties, and by age 49 he retired from his job to work on his art.[2]
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