Why it matters
Rousseau painted his second wife beside an oil lamp, as a pendant to his own portrait with a lamp. Picasso later owned both.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1903.
- It is painted in Rousseau's naïve style.
- It is in the Musée Picasso in Paris.
Based on the French Wikipedia article Portrait de la seconde femme de Rousseau (CC BY-SA 4.0).
