Fight Between a Tiger and a Buffalo
Henri Rousseau (French, 1844–1910) · 1908 · oil on fabric
CC0 1.0
CC0 1.0 public-domain dedication by the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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About this picture
Fight Between a Tiger and a Buffalo is a CC0 painting by Henri Rousseau (French, 1844–1910), dated 1908. Oil on fabric. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
Rousseau painted this jungle fight in Paris in 1908. The plants and animals come from the botanical garden, prints, and taxidermy. He never traveled to the tropics. The tiger and the buffalo are locked in a flat, dreamlike struggle, the kind of scene he returned to at the end of his life. Cleveland marks its photograph of the painting CC0.
About the artist
Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), called Le Douanier, was a French painter who worked outside the academy. He painted sharp, still portraits and jungle scenes made in Paris from the botanical garden, picture books, and taxidermy, not from travel.
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