Henri Rousseau

The Repast of the Lion



Henri Rousseau - The Repast of the Lion



Henri Rousseau
The Repast of the Lion
c. 1907
113.7 x 160 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed, lower right: Henri Rousseau
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Sam A. Lewisohn, 1951


Literature

Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 151


Provenance

Wilhelm Uhde, Paris, 1910–at least 1911, purchased from the artist by July 1910, sold to Keller
Julius Keller, Aachen, in 1914
with Stephan Bourgeois, New York, in 1923
Adolph Lewisohn, New York, about 1923–d. 1938
his son, Sam A. Lewisohn, New York, 1938–d. 1951

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 51.112.5

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Henri Rousseau View of the Quai d' Asnières (Vue du quai d'Asnières); also called The Canal and Landscape with Tree Trunks (Le Canal and Paysage avec troncs d'arbre)
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Henri Rousseau The Sleeping Gypsy
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Henri Rousseau Unpleasant Surprise
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Henri Rousseau The Snake Charmer
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