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Being green can mean many things—lush, envious, ill, or newly formed—and in the work of Henri Rousseau it holds all of these meanings at once, shaping his jungle paintings as visions of untamed nature filtered through European fantasy, colonial voyeurism, and a longing for distant places he never visited. Though derided during much of his life as “rough” or “childlike,” Rousseau’s self-taught naïveté, flattened forms, and folk-like mythologies ultimately earned the admiration of avant-garde artists, including a young Pablo Picasso.

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