Henri Rousseau Surprise painting

Henri Rousseau Surprise paintingHenri Rousseau Sleeping Gypsy paintingHenri Rousseau Scout Attacked by a Tiger painting
You’ll fall in love,’ I said.MY theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time.
These memories, which are my life - for we possess nothing certainly except the past - were always with me. Like the pigeons of St Mark’s, they were everywhere, under my feet, singly, in pairs, in little honey-voiced congregations, nodding, strutting, winking, rolling the tender feathers of their necks, perching sometimes, if I stood still, on my shoulder; until, suddenly, the noon gun boomed and in a moment, with a flutter and sweep of wings, the pavement was bare and the whole sky above dark with a tumult of fowl. Thus it was that morning of war-time.
‘Oh, pray not. I say, do you think I could have another of those scrumptious meringues?’