He was then employed as a minor inspector at a toll station near Paris. Rousseau took up his chosen career in 1885 and retired on a small pension in 1893. Such artists, however, as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Edgar Degas began to recognize a new aesthetic direction in Rousseau's work, pointing away from the naturalism of the impressionists. In these later works, Rousseau simplified his compositions with larger forms and made a bolder use of color. D.C. Rich, Henri Rousseau, 2d rev.
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