The Tiger and the Buffalo Framed Rousseau Print. The Tiger and the Buffalo or the Fight Between the Tiger and the Buffalo is a painting by Henri Rousseau created in 1908. Having never ventured outside of France, Rousseau derived his jungle scenes from reading travel books and visiting the Paris botanical garden. Rousseau was working on this painting while imprisoned for fraud in December 1907. Officials granted him an early release to finish it for an exhibition at the Salon des Indépendants, where this major composition, one of the artist’s largest and most important, appeared in March 1908.
A self-taught artist and retired customs inspector, Rousseau was admired by Pablo Picasso and other avant-garde artists for his originality and the naïve purity of his vision but ridiculed by critics. You can see this artwork in our huge and ever-expanding collection of Classical Art Prints here.
As with all our art on this website, this product is available in a variety of formats, the most popular being the stretched canvas print & framed prints, however, the product can also be bought as a rolled canvas (no support frame), paper print, wall decal (wall sticker) and floating frame (our most premium product combining a canvas print and a framed print).