Henri Rousseau Framed Art Print, The Representatives of Foreign Powers Coming to Greet the Republic as a Sign of Peace

The Representatives of Foreign Powers Coming to Greet the Republic as a Sign of Peace painting was completed in 1907, and it portrays individuals from different countries and cultures meeting to greet the republic.
Some of the flags shown include the flag of the USA, the UK, and Germany. In the background of the painting, there seems to be a celebration with people dancing around a statue.

The painting was done in the Naïve Art style, which is simply a form of self-taught art. Henri Rousseau, the artist responsible for this painting, was among the first and most popular self-taught artists. His contemporaries mocked him because they thought his paintings had a high degree of simplicity, but he would rise to prominence when Picasso promoted his work. As a piece of Naïve art, this painting does not feature fine art conventions such as the use of graphical perspective or compositional conventions. It simply uses a flat rendering style and doesn’t have high levels of expressions of perspective.