Boy On The Rocks (French: Garçon sur les rochers) is a painting by French artist Henri Rousseau. It is an oil on canvas and was created sometime between 1895 and 1897. The painting was purchased by art collector Chester Dale in 1927 and was subsequently bequeathed to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1963. Rousseau's work has been described as having a "mysterious poetry" and a "dreamlike force". According to Nicolas Pioch's comments on the painting: The painting was used on the cover of the May 19, 1999, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. References 1897 paintings Post-impressionist paintings Paintings by Henri Rousseau Paintings of children Collections of the National Gallery of Art