Henri Rousseau turned into a full-time craftsman at the age of forty-nine, subsequent to resigning from his post at the Paris traditions office - a vocation that provoked his well-known moniker, "Le Douanier Rousseau," "the toll gatherer." Although an admirer of specialists, for example, William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Jean-Leon Gerome, the self-educated Rousseau turned into the original credulous craftsman. His awkward procedure and abnormal creations incited the disparagement of contemporary pundits, while gaining the appreciation and reverence of cutting edge craftsmen like Pablo Picasso and Wassily Kandinsky for uncovering "the new conceivable outcomes of straightforwardness." Rousseau's best-known works are rich wilderness scenes, motivated