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Who painted it?
Who painted “Carnival Evening”?
“Carnival Evening” was painted by Henri Rousseau in 1886. Where to see it: Philadelphia Museum of Art.
What to look for
Henri Rousseau: naive, flat, carefully outlined jungles with every leaf separate, wide-eyed animals and dreamlike stillness.
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910) was a French post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. Wikipedia
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