Date : 1891
Dimensions : 1,62 m x 1,30 m
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Bought with a contribution from the Hon. Walter H. Annenberg (1972)
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French Painting
Painting (Scène extérieure)
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France
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A tiger crouches in the foreground, surprised by man's arrival. Rousseau's jungle is imaginary, derived from specimens of tropical plants in Paris's Botanic Gardens. By placing the trees along a diagonal axis, he has conveyed the sense of wind, in spite of the painting's static and naive style.
The figure of the tiger may have been based on a print after a pastel by Delacroix.
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