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DEATH: 1875 ROUSSEAU
^ Died on 17 December 1875: Henri Émilien Rousseau, French Orientalist painter and illustrator who studied under Gérôme. H.E. Rousseau died on 28 March 1933. — Not to be confused with “le douanier” Henri Rousseau [21 May 1844 – 02 Sep 1910]
— BIOGRAPHIE
— Porte au Maroc (Fez) (1920, 55x46cm) — Portrait d'un homme accroupi (après 1919, 45x33cm) — Cavalier devant une fontaine de Marrakech (1933, 56x44cm). — Fontaine de Marrakech (1933?, 47x39cm) sans cavalier. — Le rendez-vous (1926, 59x90cm) de cavaliers arabes. — Cavaliers et Hommes Arabes (91x71cm) — Course en Camargue (1929, 19x25cm) — Paysage désertique (24x33cm) — Sous les murs de Rabat au crépuscule (1933, 49x64cm) — Deux cavaliers africains en burnous bleu (1928, 37x48cm) — La chasse au faucon (1933, 43x55cm) — À l'abreuvoir (1926, 47x62cm) — Cavalier de fantasia à la casaque verte (1919, 22x16cm) — Fantasia marocaine (1933, 64x91 cm) — Trois cavaliers avec étendards (1921, 26x23cm) — Caïd El Ayadi (1928, 38x31cm) — Sliman Tunis (63x53cm) — Cavaliers devant une porte de Meknès (1925, 31x46cm) — Fauconnier arabe (après 1919, 55x46 cm) — Meknès – Bab et Khmis (1926, 20x30cm)

Died on a 17 December:
2002 Giovanni Intra, born in New Zealand in 1968, co-founder in 1998 (with artist Steve Hanson) of China Art Objects Galleries (name from a discarded sign, no relation to content) in Los Angeles. Their shows often featured collaborations between younger and more established Los Angeles artists, including Jorge Pardo, Laura Owens, Steven Prina and Frances Stark. But they also gave first shows to young unknowns like David Korty, John Pylypchuk, Eric Wesley, J. P. Munro and Mason Cooley.
1806 Thomas Beach, British artist specialized in Portraits, born in 1738. Beach studied under Sir Joshua Reynolds. — Not to be confused with St. Thomas Beach. — LINKS — Self-Portrait (1802, 76x63cm) — The Hand That Was Not Called (1775, 147x189cm) — Samuel Rodbard with pet dog.
1765 Ercole Graziani II, Italian artist born in 1688
1686 Liéve Pieterszoon Verschuur (or Verschuir), Dutch artist born in 1630.

Born on a 17 December:
1881 Jan Sluyters, Dutch artist who died is 1957. — Relative? of Georges de Feure [1868-1928] who is also known as Georges Joseph van Sluyters?
1875 Henri Émilien Rousseau, French Orientalist painter and illustrator who studied under Gérôme. H.E. Rousseau died on 28 March 1933. — Not to be confused with “le Douanier” Henri Rousseau [21 May 1844 – 02 Sep 1910] — BIOGRAPHIE — Porte au Maroc (Fez) (1920, 55x46cm) — Portrait d'un homme accroupi (après 1919, 45x33cm) — Cavalier devant une fontaine de Marrakech (1933, 56x44cm). — Fontaine de Marrakech (1933?, 47x39cm) sans cavalier. — Le rendez-vous (1926, 59x90cm) de cavaliers arabes. — Cavaliers et Hommes Arabes (91x71cm) — Course en Camargue (1929, 19x25cm) — Paysage désertique (24x33cm) — Sous les murs de Rabat au crépuscule (1933, 49x64cm) — Deux cavaliers africains en burnous bleu (1928, 37x48cm) — La chasse au faucon (1933, 43x55cm) — À l'abreuvoir (1926, 47x62cm) — Cavalier de fantasia à la casaque verte (1919, 22x16cm) — Fantasia marocaine (1933, 64x91 cm) — Trois cavaliers avec étendards (1921, 26x23cm) — Caïd El Ayadi (1928, 38x31cm) — Sliman Tunis (63x53cm) — Cavaliers devant une porte de Meknès (1925, 31x46cm) — Fauconnier arabe (après 1919, 55x46 cm) — Meknès – Bab et Khmis (1926, 20x30cm)
1859 Paul César Helleu, French artist who died on 23 March 1927.
1859 Ettore Tito, Italian artist who died in 1941.
1819 Jean Baptiste van Moer, Belgian artist who died on 06 December 1884.
1667 Jean-Baptiste Bosschaert, Flemish artist who died in 1746.

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