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the doors frame the plants on the balcony
It is interpreted as an emblem of life's transience and individual salvation
symbolizing anxiety
windmills and houses of the city are wedged between a giant open sky and a large field of green
Myself, Portrait-Landscape ☷ Rousseau ☰ Canvas horses the doors frame the plantsMyself, Portrait Landscape (1890, Moi mme, portrait paysage) by Henri Rousseau is a self portrait titled to claim equal status between the typically distinct genres of portraits and landscapes. Rousseau is wearing the insignia of the Ordre des Palmes acadmiques as a buttonhole pin, which was awarded to a namesake of his but never to him, and holding a palette bearing the names of his two wives "Clmence et Josephine!" He stands as an oversized figure