Why it matters
Four men in striped outfits play a ball game on a field lined with trees: despite the title, it is rugby. Rousseau's naïve scene was one of four works he showed at the Salon des Indépendants in 1908.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1908.
- Justin Thannhauser bought it in 1912 but sold it in 1917.
- The Guggenheim bought it at Sotheby's in 1960.
Based on the French Wikipedia article Les Joueurs de football (Rousseau) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
