Henri Rousseau's 'Fight between a Tiger and a Buffalo' (c. 1908) is one of his fantastical jungle scenes: a tiger and a water buffalo locked in mid-combat amid densely layered vegetation, under a theatrical band of sky. A Paris customs officer who never visited the tropics, Rousseau built his jungles from Jardin des Plantes greenhouse plants, illustrated books, and the Jardin d'Acclimatation menagerie — and produced some of the most original Naïve paintings of the early 20th century. The work is in the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Exhibition Venue

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States