The Repast of the Lion, 1907 by Henri Rousseau

The Repast of the Lion, 1907 by Henri Rousseau
The Repast of the Lion, 1907 by Henri Rousseau

This work was probably shown in the Salon d'Automne of 1907, but it treats a theme that Rousseau first explored in Surprised! of 1891. He based the exotic vegetation of his many jungle pictures on studies that he made in Paris’s botanical gardens, and adapted the wild beasts from popular ethnographic journals and illustrated children's books.