The Repast of the Lion
Eugène Delacroix
€39,90
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
The Repast of the Lion, painted around 1907 by Henri Rousseau, known as Le Douanier, depicts a lion feeding upon its prey amid a dense, fantastical jungle of oversized leaves and exotic foliage. Rousseau, a self-taught customs official who never traveled beyond France, invented his lush tropical landscapes entirely from imagination, drawing inspiration from botanical gardens, illustrated books, and taxidermy displays in Parisian museums.
The painting's flattened, decorative treatment of foliage and its dreamlike, almost hallucinatory intensity exemplify Rousseau's singular Naive style, which captivated the Parisian avant-garde and profoundly influenced artists such as Pablo Picasso. Rousseau's untutored yet meticulous technique, rendering each leaf with obsessive clarity, transforms an imagined scene of primal violence into a composition of hypnotic, almost tapestry-like beauty.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this museum-quality stretched canvas reproduction is printed on premium matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Henri Rousseau |
| Year | ca. 1907 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 44 3/4 x 63 in. (113.7 x 160 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Post-Impressionism |
