A Centennial of Independence ☳ Rousseau ☵ Canvas Size:17 x 12 entertaining the audience in the

entertaining the audience in the bleachers

a civic guard

and kissing his neck

protecting the land and its people

bought for 400 francs by Anna Boch (1848-1936)

A Centennial of Independence ☳ Rousseau ☵ Canvas Size:17 x 12 entertaining the audience in theA Centennial of Independence (1892) by Henri Rousseau commemorates the 100th anniversary of the first French Republic formed in 1792. Peasants dance the farandole, a popular southern French dance, around three liberty trees with two female figures representing the First and Third Republics. Rousseau copied the dancers from a magazine illustration, adding waving banners and the liberty poles, and a wagon full of costumed musicians. On the right, the