Rousseau Merry Jesters Enamel Pin

$4.99 at Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Our enamel pin details Rousseau's Merry Jesters that will keep your cap, backpack of favorite jacket smiling! Rousseau's best-known paintings depict jungle scenes, even though he never left France or saw a jungle. His inspiration came from illustrations in children's books and the botanical gardens in Paris, as well as tableaux of taxidermy wild animals. Known for his fantastic scenes, Rousseau was a self-taught artist whose works appealed to the collectors and avant-garde artists of the early twentieth…