In 1908, the first international rugby match was played in Paris
between France and England. Rousseau painted this happy scene that same year.
The football players almost look like cut-out puppets, their positive shapes seem
pasted onto the scene in collage-like style. Rousseau confuses perspective and
scale and makes us wonder which we should believe - the scale of the men or the
trees. The football player closest to us in the center of the painting is said
to be a self-portrait of Rousseau. There is no sun or moon in this painting, but
Rousseau included his trademark circle shape, this time as a ball.
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