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Henri Rousseau

Outskirts of Paris

c. 1897–1905
oil on fabric
37.8 × 45.8 cm (14.9 × 18 in)

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Rousseau once said to Picasso: "We are the two greatest artists of this era, you in the Egyptian style, I in the modern style."

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