Fight between a Tiger and a Buffalo
1908
Henri Rousseau
Henri Rousseau (French, 1844–1910)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Fight between a Tiger and a Buffalo, 1908. Henri Rousseau (French, 1844–1910). Oil on fabric; framed: 183 x 203 x 4.5 cm (72 1/16 x 79 15/16 x 1 3/4 in.); unframed: 170 x 189.5 cm (66 15/16 x 74 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1949.186 Many of Rousseau's paintings depict wild animals and tropical jungles that might lead you to believe he was quite the adventurer. Despite the wild subject matter Rousseau never left France, but instead drew inspiration from visiting botanical gardens and reading travel books. Would you like to visit the fantastical world shown in this painting?
- Maker/Artist
- Rousseau, Henri
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 183 x 203 x 4.5 cm (72 1/16 x 79 15/16 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 170 x 189.5 cm (66 15/16 x 74 5/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed and dated lower right: Henri Rousseau / 1908
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1949.186
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Hanna Fund
- Exhibitions
- In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Masterpieces of Art, Henri Rousseau, Le Monde Des Neifs (De Lusthof Der Naieven), Years of Ferment: The Birth of Twentieth-century Art, Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960, Henri Rousseau and the Modern Age, Jungles in Paris: The Paintings of Henri Rousseau, Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Shadow of the Avant-Garde, Le Douanier Rousseau. L'innocence archaïque, Paris, Société des Artistes Indépendants. 24me exposition (1908), no. 5260, Combat de Tigre et de Buffle (for sale)., Chicago, Arts Club Exhibitions at the Art Institute. Loan Exhibition of Some Modern Paintings (1926-27), no. 14, The Jungle, lent by Mrs. John A. Carpenter., New York, Reinhardt Gallery. Loan Exhibition of Paintings from Memling, Holbein, and Titian to Renoir and Picasso (1928), no. 27, The Jungle, lent by Mrs. John Alden Carpenter (repr.), New York, Valentine Gallery. Six Major Paintings by the Modern Masters of France, Braque, Matisse, Derain, Picasso, and One Important Work by Henri Rousseau (1930), no. 7, Le tigre et le rhinocéros-1908., Arts Club of Chicago. Paintings by Henri Rousseau (1931), no. 7, The Jungle, collection of Mrs. John Alden Carpenter, Chicago., New York, Museum of Modern Art. Fruit and Flower Paintings (1933), no cat. <br>Art Institute of Chicago. A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture (1933 and 1934), no. 368 (1933); no. 321 (1934), lent by Mrs. Patrick J. Hill to the Joseph Winterbotham Collection, Art Institute of Chicago., Art Institute of Chicago; New York, Museum of Modern Art. Henri Rousseau (1942-43), 49 (repr.) (lent by Hill, according to 1942 moma label on the back of the frame; according to moma archives, the painting did not travel to other venues after New York), 64., New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery. Twentieth Century Masters (1948), no. 12, The Jungle (repr.).<br>Venice. XXV Biennale di Venezia (1950), 235, no. 14, fig. 59., Montreal Museum of Art. Six Centuries of Landscape (1952), no. 58, 29 (repr.)., Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne. L'oeuvre du XXe siècle (1952), no. 98., London, Tate Gallery (Organized by the Arts Council). XXth Century Masterpieces (1952), no. 83., Kansas City, Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum. Twentieth Anniversary Celebration: French Paintings-19th and 20th Centuries-A Loan Exhibition (1953), checklist no. 10., Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery. Fifty Paintings 1905-1913 (1955), no. 42, 64 (repr.)., Kansas City, Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum. Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition, in The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum Bulletin 1 (December 1958), no. 9., Seattle World's Fair, Fine Art Pavillion. Masterpieces of Art (1962), no. 53 (repr.)., New York, Wildenstein. Loan Exhibition Henri Rousseau (1963), no. 46 (repr.)., Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen. De Lusthof der Naïeven (1964), no. 20 (repr.)., Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne. Le Monde des Naifs (1964), no. 20 (repr.)., Los Angeles, ucla Art Galleries; San Francisco Museum of Art; cma. Years of Ferment: The Birth of Twentieth Century Art 1886-1914 (1965), 38 (repr.), no. 47 (repr. on cover)., Paris, Grand Palais; New York, Museum of Modern Art. Henri Rousseau (1984-85), no. 50 (repr.) (not shown in Paris)., CMA. Creativity in Art and Science (1987), no. 18 (repr.)., Tübingen, Germany: Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany. Henri Rousseau and the Modern Age (2/3/01 - 6/17/01), exh. cat. no. 43, pp 209-211, repr. p. 211, detail front and back., Tate Modern, London (11/3/2005 - 2/5/2006), Galeries du Grand Palais, Paris (3/13/2006 - 6/19/2006) and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (7/16/2006 - 10/15/2006): "Jungles in Paris: The Paintings of Henri Rousseau" ex. cat. no. 45, p. 148-149., CMA (organizer). Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea: Dec. 18, 2006 - March 31, 2007; Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea: Apr. 7 - May 20, 2007; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: June 9 - Sept. 16, 2007; Cleveland Museum of Art, Oct. 21, 2007- January 13, 2008: "Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art", Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France (3/21/2016 - 7/17/2016): "Le Douanier Rousseau. L'innocence archaïque" cat. no. 89, p. 232-233.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 223 20th Century Avant-Garde
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