\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 Henri Rousseau painted this portrait of the great French poet and his wife in his usual na∩ve and primitive style. The two-d
imensional figures and the unreal colors that he uses confer an emblematic quality on the figures that goes beyond the appearance of reality. These were the very characteristics that made Gauguin, Braque, Picasso and Redon such great admirers of Rousseau
