Henri Julien Félix Rousseau, known as Le Douanier Rousseau, was a French painter, generally considered representative of naïve painters. To paint, he strove to reproduce what he saw and tried to make what he saw coincide with what he knew of the facts. Exoticism abounds in his work even though Rousseau hardly ever left Paris. His exoticism is imaginary and stylized, drawn from the Jardin des Plantes, the Jardin d'Acclimatation, illustrated magazines and botanical magazines of the time. He was criticized for his frontal portraits of frozen figures, his lack of perspective, his vivid colors, his naivety and his clumsiness, but "nostalgics of childhood", seekers of wonder and all those who intended to sail far from norms were enthusiastic. An original colorist, with a summary but precise style, he influenced naïve painting.