1895
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
La Guerre (The War) is a 1895 by Henri Rousseau, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This print shows a woman riding a horse through a chaotic battlefield. The background is filled with tangled lines and shapes—soldiers, weapons, and smoke. The whole scene is in black against a bright red background, making everything stand out sharply. The artist used a printing method called *photomechanical relief*, where ink sits on raised surfaces to create the image. This technique gives the lines a rough, almost sketchy look. Look up Rousseau, Henri to see how he mixed bold colors with rough textures in other works.
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was born on 21 May 1844 in Laval, Mayenne, and died in Paris on 2 September 1910.
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