In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
In his landscapes of Paris and its environs, Rousseau favored unremarkable views rather than the city's popular attractions. Upon first glance, this painting appears to be a straightforward record of a laundry boat and fishermen. Closer examination reveals the odd scale of the figures in the boats, who are tiny compared with the figure on the bank. The artist's imaginative jungle compositions and strange city scenes like this one made him popular with Parisian avant-garde.
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Henri Rousseau (French, 1844–1910) — Outskirts of Paris
Wybrand Hendriks — View of the Nieuwe Gracht near the Bolwer
Philips Koninck — Wide River Landscape
John Varley — On the Thames at Hammersmith
John Kane — Along the Susquehanna
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903) — The Lock at Pontoise
Paul Cézanne — Banks of the Marne
Maxime Lalanne (French, 1827–1886) — At Neuilly (Seine)
Jean Hugo — Huy (Valley of the Meuse)
Charles-François Daubigny — Landscape on a River
Pehr Nordqvist — Ruins at Oestergoedland
Eduard Alexander Hilverdink — Gezicht op het Polderhuis aan 
