In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
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Here we see a group of people strolling through the Parc Montsouris, one of four parks that opened in Paris during the 1870s, a period of urban renewal throughout the city. A popular location, the park included an artificial lake, which Rousseau has pictured here. The flatness of the scene makes it look as though the figures in the foreground are walking across a stage and the landscape is painted on a backdrop. Many artists in later generations admired this sense of spatial dislocation, often present in Rousseau's works.
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Henri Rousseau (le Douanier) — The Banks of the Bièvre near 
Jean Hugo — Huy (Valley of the Meuse)
William James Glackens — Luxembourg Gardens
Henri Rousseau (French, 1844–1910) — Outskirts of Paris
Maria Adriana Marinkel — Familieportret van een onbekend gez
John Kane — Farm
American 19th Century — Leaving the Manor House
Édouard Manet — View of the 1867 Exposition Universelle
American 19th Century — Lexington Battle Monument
Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940) — Under the Trees (from
Charles Prendergast — Central Park
Gustave Caillebotte — The Park on the Caillebotte Property a
